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Google chat, lol. Which one? Google Wave? Google Buzz? Google Talk? Google Hangouts? Google Allo? Google Duo? Google Meet? Google chat that came with Google A

• lima 6y ago
  Google Chat, they have exactly one enterprise messenger (surprising, right?).
  • vehementi 6y ago
    No they don't?
    • howlgarnish 6y ago
      Enterprise, as in meant for companies and included in G Suite/Workspace. Duo etc don't count.
      • btmiller 6y ago
        Hard to read that with a straight face. What counts is what people use.
• singhkays 6y ago
  Damn! What kind of research did you have to do to write all those names or did you remember them all? :) They're so many now, I can only remember a few
  • hated 6y ago
    Your one stop shop for all things killed by Google https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/
    • ant6n 6y ago
      They'll kill hangouts? I´d say there´s a big danger that instead of switching to yet another Google chat service, ppl will just switch to telegram/whatsap/facebook messenger.
      • apetresc 6y ago
        They've already announced its demise. It's just confusing because it'll be migrating into some other service that nobody who doesn't work at Google can distinguish from Hangouts.
  • Nition 6y ago
    Haha, it reminds me a bit of Microsoft Account, MSA, Windows Live ID, Microsoft Passport, .NET Passport, and Microsoft Passport Network.
    • WorldMaker 6y ago
      Does it? It's not a good comparison. All of those are brand names for a product still offered with continuity of teams between them and while some of the brand names signaled breaks in compatibility for developers using the services, it was still ostensibly the same product. Whereas most of these Google projects were ostensibly entirely different teams with different project goals building externally similar projects because of internal politics. It's also interesting to note that most of those backwards compatibility breaks in developer APIs in the Microsoft product mentioned have occurred as Microsoft has adapted to changes in (security) standards over the years, from entirely proprietary system, through custom extensions of WS-* and SAML standards, to today's OpenID Connect-based system. It's a very stark contrast to Google's messaging apps which started with the (XMPP) standards-based Google Chat and each subsequent product has been more proprietary, more of a walled garden, and less interoperable with other products.
      • jsnell 6y ago
        So for a 1:1 comparison, let's consider the apps that MS has made in this space over the years. Ignoring the semi-annual rebrands and the MS chat products that were killed from before Google even existed (there's surprisingly many!), there's at least: 1. MSN Messenger (+ rebrands) 2. Skype 3. NetMeeting 4. Lync (+ rebrands) 5. Yammer 6. Kaizala 7. Teams 8. SharedView 9. Windows Meeting Space 10. Groove 11. Qik I tried to err on the side of assuming that any time they killed one product and immediately replaced it with another, it was a rebrand. (E.g. were Office Communicator / Office Live Meeting / Lync / Skype for Business actually compatible? If not, they clearly weren't just rebrands.) Overall this seems like a very similar amount of churn, product overlap, and politics-driven product management.
        • Nition 6y ago
• thallium205 6y ago
  The one that is built into every GSuite/Workspace account. For free. Google Chat.
  • ISL 6y ago
    I haven't seen anything in GSuite that holds a candle to Slack. Is there a slack-like view embedded in GSuite somewhere?
    • codemac 6y ago
      chat.google.com ?
      • temp667 6y ago
        Try doing the slack step of clicking on the phone icon to start a call, then adding screen sharing. We pay for gsuite and we pay for slack. google chat is no where yet.
        • colinmhayes 6y ago
          You click the video button, switch tabs, and click the screen share button. I agree that chat sucks compared to slack and teams, but it's got enough functionality to not be a deal breaker for companies that are already paying gSuite. Especially if they've never used the superior competitors.
  • Technically 6y ago
    Wait seriously? I had no idea that existed. I thought gchat was killed when they removed it from gmail.
  • jasonv 6y ago
    The mobile Google Chat still doesn't let you switch accounts, like Hangouts supports. Perplexing, given how much people in the Google-sphere context switch.
• s3r3nity 6y ago
  Don’t forget about the new Google Pay, which has its own messaging feature for some reason
  • Spivak 6y ago
    I can kinda understand that one since Venmo's chat feature is useful and I wouldn't want that stuff mixed with my regular messages.
  • OkGoDoIt 6y ago
    Tangential question, is the new Google Pay a completely separate product from the old Google wallet? Because a lot of the functionality seems to be the same but I get the impression it was probably re-implemented since a lot of that functionally was removed from Google wallet years ago.
• thekyle 6y ago
  As far I can tell Google currently has two products called "Google Chat". One of them is available at chat.google.com for G-Suite customers and competes with Slack. The other is available in Android Messages and is the user-facing name for RCS.
• netsec_burn 6y ago
  I think they meant Google Messages.
• shaklee3 6y ago
  Duo isn't a chat app; it's a video app.
  • oblio 6y ago
    So just like Hangouts supports video? :-)
    • shaklee3 6y ago
      Right, but OP was listing chat apps to say how many Google killed. Allo was the analogous chat app that was released in tandem with duo. Duo is not a chat app.