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Google rebrands Hangouts Chat to just "Google Chat"
After Hangouts Meet was renamed to simply "Google Meet," the Hangouts Chat service is now similarly named "Google Chat." It's a little confusing.
Google's confusing usage of the "Hangouts" branding for enterprise G Suite products has officially come to an end. After Hangouts Meet was renamed to simply "Google Meet," the Hangouts Chat service is now similarly named "Google Chat." Surprising to no one, this is yet another confusing move in Google's history with messaging services.
[Update: Confirmed] Google may rebrand Hangouts Meet to simply "Google Meet"
Google will rename its current video conferencing platform Hangouts Meet as Google Meet for a cleaner and more appealing branding.
Google has a reputation for killing its apps tastelessly. Hangouts, however, has survived the ax despite Google's deliberation of shutting it down – or replacing it with apps named after it – for over three years now. Since then, it has been talking about "upgrading" users from the classic Hangouts app to Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. Last year, Google pushed the deadline for making users switch over to the new platforms but it may have finally started getting rid of the previous lineage. A new report suggests that Hangouts Meet may be rebranded to simply Google Meet as we move closer to the migration date.
[Update: Postponed for G Suite] Google will transition "classic" Hangouts users to Chat and Meet later this year
Google has posted an update on the transition for G Suite users from "classic" Hangouts to Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet.
One of the biggest Google stories of 2018 was the downfall of Hangouts. The platform had long been seemingly abandoned, but we finally got some news about its future. In December, we learned that Hangouts users will eventually be transitioned to Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. There was no timeline given at the time, but now we have a little more of an idea.
Google Pushes Hangouts in a more Corporate Direction with Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat
Google is giving Hangouts it corporate and enterprise direction that it promised last year, with the launch of Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. Read on!
If you ask anyone to sum up Google's messaging strategy, then you'll probably draw a blank stare. We've tried to come up with an answer ourselves, and have found that quite difficult. What started off with one app trying to provide a convenient messaging platform evolved into several different apps trying to compete for different (but often overlapping) sets of users, but then failing to deliver some key functionality that hinders their adoption.