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It's rebranding of GSuite, yes. Incredibly bad marketing. Google Chat to Hangouts to Hangouts Chat and now back to Chat. Amazing.
by conception 5y ago
It's rebranding of GSuite, yes. Incredibly bad marketing.
Google Chat to Hangouts to Hangouts Chat and now back to Chat. Amazing.
- babyshake 5y agoAre we talking dozens of meetings about the name? Probably more like hundreds.
- javajosh 5y agoWelcome to Google Synonym[1] - a new Google service that helps you navigate the Marketing Graph of product names and their relationship with each other over time. Think of it like Google Maps if the map was a mind map produced by our product teams! [1] Will be renamed to "Google Metaphor" in 2022.
- imajoredinecon 5y agoShould the first one be Google _Talk_, or was there another pre-Hangouts feature called Chat too?
- conception 5y agoYou're right!
- rattray 5y agoChat, but now there's also Spaces (well currently Rooms but soon Spaces) which is a Slack competitor. Gif here: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-cloudblog-publish/original_images/00_Vignette_2_v03.gif https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-cloudblog-publish/origin... Announcement here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace/helping-business-with-new-additions-to-google-workspace https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace/helping-bus...