Google Hangouts Will Come To An End

 

Google’s messaging application “Google Hangouts” will soon come to an end or death and all users information will migrate into Google Chat wherein the Google Chat will be free to use by year 2021. Google Chat will replace Google Hangouts.

“Google’s strategy around its messaging apps is nothing if not messy right now (hello Hangouts, Meet, Chat, Duo and Co.), but it looks like things will get a bit easier come next year. We already knew that Hangouts’ time was coming to an end and as Google announced today, the company will allow all current Hangouts users to migrate to Chat — which was originally meant to only be its Slack-like messaging service for business users — in the first half of 2021…… Chat will now also become free to use for consumers. Currently, you have to be a paying G Suite/Workspace user to access the service….. While Chat isn’t an exact 1-to-1 replacement of Hangouts, it actually offers a bunch of additional features for group chats and collaboration around files and tasks, as well as new security tools. Chat, together with Rooms and Meet, will also be integrated deeply into the Gmail app as part of Google’s Workspace migration.” (Tech Crunch)

“Google says it will automatically migrate all Hangouts conversations, contacts and history to Chat, but it’s not providing details about this yet. Final timing, Google says, may still shift. It’s not clear, though, when Google will force everyone to migrate and shut down the Hangouts servers for good.”(Tech Crunch)

The main point : Google Hangouts will soon to die and will be replace by Google Chat.

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