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(At the time, Google already had two messaging apps-Google Talk and Google+ Messenger- and two SMS-based options-SMS on Android and Google Voice). But Google wanted it to be more.Īt Google I/O in 2013, the company announced that Hangouts would become a full messaging service replacing Google Talk. It offered free and easy group video chatting in your browser, and was far simpler to use than Skype. While Google+ was a disaster as a social network that utterly failed to compete with Facebook or Twitter, and Google+ Messenger, the text-messaging feature, was incredibly bare bones, mobile only, and caught up in a trademark dispute, Hangouts was pretty popular. Initially, it was a really good product with a clear vision. Google Hangouts ( the original, classic version) launched in 2011 as a video chat feature built into Google+. Google would iterate through increasingly inconsistent messaging apps that it later shutdown or rolled into other apps. There was one service, and it worked really well. Google Talk (or GChat) launched in 2005 and for a few years things were simple. Google’s messaging efforts over the past decade and a half have been a complete mess. All your conversations should already have been ported over, though, so you can pick up where you left off.īefore we get into what the future holds for Google’s messaging platforms, here’s a look back at how we got here. Once you get the “It’s time for Chat in Gmail” message, Hangouts will stop working. If you still use the once-popular Google messaging app, you will get a prompt to move to Google Chat over the coming days. Google Hangouts is finally getting shut down.
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