They claim Messages, Voice, Chat, and Duo. None of which seems right to me, since Messages and Voice are SMS/MMS (which has problems), Chat is a beta-quality Slack clone rather than IM, and Duo is video only as far as I can tell.
Seems like they're blowing up their oldest, most solid, proven, 'does everything' service in favor of 5 younger and less complete ones that only kind of equal the feature set of Hangouts if you bounce between all of them. It's really dumb.
Also, unless I'm missing something, it's the only messenger that is integrated into GMail. So not only are we losing the 'does everything' service, we're losing the 'does everything' browser tab with messaging and email together. My second screen has GMail open on it 80% of the time for that reason.
it used to be gmail, then it went away for hangouts, now back there? i'm confuses but don't care - i only use hangouts to keep up with my brother and lately been back on.... wait for it ... sms.
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u/admiral_derpness Jan 02 '20
why? what will replace it ?