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tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo's) successor, google chat.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's impossible to keep up with Google's various services. Unless it's Gmail or Photos, it'll probably get killed within a year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Photos already took place of another application killed by Google. It can be killed again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I always used to use Hangouts as my default chat app for friends. We had a big DnD group chat on it. But we migrated to WhatsApp when Google said they were going to kill hangouts and never looked back.

Why would I trust Google with my chats when they constantly abandon/kill off their best tools. We've now moved to Signal and I'm expecting to stay there for a long time.

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