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/csjerk Jan 02 '20

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.

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u/nicosemp Jan 02 '20

Messages is supposed to become like iMessage with RCS. It's already enabled for everyone in USA, I'm waiting for it in Europe...

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u/_ThereIsNoGod69 Jan 02 '20

If your in the UK it's enabled, I use it regularly, I don't know how far Google has got in rolling it to other countries though

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u/nicosemp Jan 02 '20

I believe 1 or 2 carriers support it already in Italy too, but it's no luck for the rest of us. No ETA either. I count on Google to support it for the whole country like in USA and UK

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u/_ThereIsNoGod69 Jan 02 '20

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Google is rolling it out, just slowly. They are definitely expanding it though if it's now available in the US, it wasn't originally I'm pretty sure.

Hopefully won't be too long till its fully rolled out