Google Hangouts Deprecation
Users debate the decline, abandonment, and replacement of Google Hangouts with products like Google Chat and Meet, often lamenting its superiority over predecessors like Google Talk and criticizing Google's messaging strategy.
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Hangouts has all that. What's wrong with hangouts? Why should it be replaced with something "newer"? Why does Google HO keep getting worse?
Hangouts migrated to Chat, is that bad?
I've been using Google Hangouts, doesn't look like this option exists here...
Google Hangouts provides a lot of Skypeishness, for what that's worth.
Isn't Hangouts a G+ feature?
Why would kill hangouts in first place. It was best app for sms and chat and had xmpp support as well. Google chat hardly anyone uses in my contacts.
Hangouts is abandoned by Google going forward except to support Enterprise customers
Hangouts is now being marketed as a business product, they'll probably take it away from non-org accounts soon enough; perhaps this is the alternative.
Hangouts was a shadow of the Google Talk
Google Hangouts are a nice replacement honestly. Just wish there was some calendar integration and performance was better.