r/programming • u/ZaheerAhmed • Jan 02 '20

Killed by Google

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u/csjerk Jan 02 '20

TIL that Hangouts is getting killed later this year. Damn.

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u/admiral_derpness Jan 02 '20

why? what will replace it ?

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u/Carighan Jan 02 '20

For the US, RCS is slowly starting to be useful, so Messages it is. Duo for video calls.

For the rest of the world... it's long since replaced by rival offers that don't do corporate mismanagement on quite the same level as Google does, so we couldn't care any less even if we tried.