According to the
news, Google Hangouts- Google’s messaging app- will soon come to an end or
death and will be replace by Google Chat. Google Chat according to news will
now be free by year 2021. All the users’ information on Google Hangouts will
migrate into Google Chat as the news said.
“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)
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