It’s only been a few weeks since Google brought the Assistant to Google Maps to help you reply to messages, play music and more. This feature first launched in English and will soon start rolling out to all Assistant phone languages. In addition, Google also today announced that the Assistant will come to Android Messages, […]
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Google will start retiring Hangouts for G Suite users in October
Google’s strategy around its consumer messaging services remains baffling, especially since it killed off Allo (yet kept Duo on life support). Today, the company clarified the timeline of the transition from classic Hangouts to Chat and Meet for its paying G Suite customers. For them, the Hangouts retirement party will start in October of this […]
View More Google will start retiring Hangouts for G Suite users in OctoberAllo, goodbye: Google is killing off the messaging app
Another Google messaging app is dead.
Allo, which launched back in 2016, will soon be no longer. The tech giant announced in a blog post that it’s ending support for the messaging app next March.
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Google starts migrating all G Suite users from Hangouts to Meet
Google today announced that starting now, it is moving all of its G Suite users who follow its recommended schedule from its Hangouts video chat service to Hangouts Meet, the more enterprise-ready version of Hangouts. The move will likely take about a month or so. This means all newly created Calendar invites will now link […]
View More Google starts migrating all G Suite users from Hangouts to MeetGoogle changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to Allo, double down on RCS
Google’s long-and-winding road to figuring out messaging is taking yet another change of direction after the company called time on Allo, its newest chat app launch, in order to double down on its vision to enable an enhanced version of SMS. The company told The Verge that it is “pausing” work on Allo, which was only launched […]
View More Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to Allo, double down on RCSGoogle’s Duo video chat app gets video- and voicemail
Google’s messaging strategy may still seem chaotic to many, but the basic tenant of how it wants the public to think about Hangouts, Hangouts Meet, Hangouts Chat, Allo and Duo is that Allo/Duo are for consumers and Hangouts Meet/Chat are for business users. Hangouts itself is meant to… actually, I don’t know what it’s meant to be now and I’m not sure Google… Read More