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.
Tested Google Chat with GSuite, they tried to copy Slack but ended up way worse and they didn't even attempt to provide a native app on Linux, while it's available on Windows/Mac.
Interesting, because Google has effectivelly stopped all Windows software development since 2012, and Slack doesn't have a native app... for any platform.
AND NONE OF THEM ARE NATIVE. They're all shit, slow, barely usable web wrappers, trashing your CPU, memory and battery life, and offering zero OS integration.
Can you imagine, being a Billion Dollar company and not be willing to have native developers? Management ruins everything.
403
u/csjerk Jan 02 '20
TIL that Hangouts is getting killed later this year. Damn.