The frustrating part about your reporting is it leaves the reader to jump to dramatic conclusions, because it is only half the story. You can do better.ġ/ I can't comment on your sourcing, since I don't have any details. Hangouts users will be upgraded to Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. No decisions made about when Hangouts will be shut down. Hey I run Hangouts and this is pretty shoddy reporting. Meanwhile, a second source has since corroborated my initial report, and says decisions have indeed been made for the deprecation of legacy Hangouts. Scott also explicitly confirms for the first time that Hangouts ‘classic’, the subject of this report, will be shutting down “eventually.” Confusingly, however, he says that u sers of consumer Hangouts users will be somehow “upgraded” to Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet, both of which have up to now been presented as enterprise-focused products that fill different needs. Update 12/1: Google’s Scott Johnston has chimed in and denies that any decisions have been made about the timeline of legacy Hangouts’ shutdown. Interestingly, despite its forthcoming axing, Hangouts was one of a few apps to get early support for Android Auto’s new MMS and RCS functionality, alongside Android Messages and WhatsApp. Meanwhile, Google Voice calling, which was at first independent and then long integrated into Hangouts, was moved back out to its own redesigned app earlier this year. Many recent reviews say that the app is showing signs of age, noting bugs and performance issues.Īs mentioned, Hangouts as a brand will live on with G Suite’s Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet, the former intended to be a team communication app comparable to Slack, and the latter a video meetings platform. But Hangouts is still the prominent chat option in Gmail on the web and the app remains on the Google Play Store to this day. Given Google’s abandonment of the app in terms of development and its presumed eventual death, many have already transitioned away from using it. Meanwhile, Google has transitioned its consumer-facing messaging efforts to RCS ‘Chat’ and Android Messages following Allo’s misadventures. Last spring, Google announced its pivot for the Hangouts brand to enterprise use cases with Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet, so the writing has been on the wall for quite some time regarding the Hangouts consumer app’s demise.
But just know, going into 2019, this is indeed your last year to keep using the beloved (?) legacy chat app. That’s not surprising at all since Google essentially ceased development on the app more than a year ago. According to source familiar with the product’s internal roadmap, Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting down sometime in 2020.
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