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At one point I think Google had 4? chat apps. Hangouts, Voice(at one point merged with hangouts), Duo, and Meet. If you wanna count Google+ I think you could.

by chneu 1y ago

oblio 1y ago
And the only good one was Google Talk. Clean, efficient.
- dyauspitr 1y ago
  Meet is pretty no nonsense.
  - jfoster 1y ago
    Corporate ADHD will get it eventually.
IceWreck 1y ago
I think Allo and YouTube Chat were also around for the same time as Duo.
- chneu 1y ago
  Lol holy shit I've forgotten them. Get your shit together Google
  - ahartmetz 1y ago
    They should cut the crap and just call them "Jeff Smith promotion app", "Vishesh Gupta promotion app" and so on. Easier to remember, too.
selkin 1y ago
There were many more than four in total. Right now they have more then four (there are completely separate messaging apps hidden inside Docs and Maps). It is easy to confuse them all, considering those apps got renamed often. By my count, there were four different apps called Hangouts (!), some existing at the same time: (1) The original Google Hangouts, which replaced Google Talk. (2) Google+ Hangouts, which was video only. Google+ also had a text messaging app called Huddle. (3) Google Hangouts Meet, a video chat aimed mostly at the workplace. By the time it was launched Google+ was dead and buried. The “hangouts” was later dropped, making it just “Google Meet”. (4) Google Hangouts Chat, the equivalent text chat device. They also dropped the word “hangout” from the name, but it was launched as “Hangouts”.
- jfoster 1y ago
  The messaging in Maps has been ended. https://developers.google.com/business-communications/business-messages/resources/release-notes/update-on-gbm https://developers.google.com/business-communications/busine... I can't bring myself to care enough about whether whatever was in Docs is still going or not. We both know how it will eventually end up even if it is still going.

At one point I think Google had 4? chat apps. Hangouts, Voice(at one point merged with hangouts), Duo, and Meet. If you wanna count Google+ I think you could.

by chneu 1y ago

At one point I think Google had 4? chat apps. Hangouts, Voice(at one point merged with hangouts), Duo, and Meet. If you wanna count Google+ I think you could.

oblio 1y ago

And the only good one was Google Talk. Clean, efficient.

dyauspitr 1y ago
Meet is pretty no nonsense.
- jfoster 1y ago
  Corporate ADHD will get it eventually.

IceWreck 1y ago

I think Allo and YouTube Chat were also around for the same time as Duo.

chneu 1y ago
Lol holy shit I've forgotten them. Get your shit together Google
- ahartmetz 1y ago
  They should cut the crap and just call them "Jeff Smith promotion app", "Vishesh Gupta promotion app" and so on. Easier to remember, too.

selkin 1y ago

There were many more than four in total. Right now they have more then four (there are completely separate messaging apps hidden inside Docs and Maps). It is easy to confuse them all, considering those apps got renamed often. By my count, there were four different apps called Hangouts (!), some existing at the same time: (1) The original Google Hangouts, which replaced Google Talk. (2) Google+ Hangouts, which was video only. Google+ also had a text messaging app called Huddle. (3) Google Hangouts Meet, a video chat aimed mostly at the workplace. By the time it was launched Google+ was dead and buried. The “hangouts” was later dropped, making it just “Google Meet”. (4) Google Hangouts Chat, the equivalent text chat device. They also dropped the word “hangout” from the name, but it was launched as “Hangouts”.

jfoster 1y ago
The messaging in Maps has been ended. https://developers.google.com/business-communications/business-messages/resources/release-notes/update-on-gbm https://developers.google.com/business-communications/busine... I can't bring myself to care enough about whether whatever was in Docs is still going or not. We both know how it will eventually end up even if it is still going.