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Re:The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts by whoisjuan on Thursday December 06, 2018 @02:06AM (#18616019)
Yes. Their explanation also didn't make much sense since Hangouts was targeted for a while to consumers. But what I got from this is basically:

Messages <-> iMessage

Duo <-> Facetime

Hangouts <-> Slack

I think they should rename the Hangouts to something completely different. That at least will increase clarity for consumers and businesses.

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Re:The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts by bufferoverflow on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:50AM (#18616648)
This mapping isn't correct. Hangouts does all of the above - video chats, voice chats, text with emojis, pictures and videos.

Hangouts is also integrated with Google Voice and GMail. So when someone calls my GV phone number, it rings on my cell phone and in any open GMail tab (but not in the GMail app). I get an SMS, it pops up as a hangouts message too.

It is a mess, but trying to kill Hangouts is insane, it's deeply integrated and it's extremely convenient to use.

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Re:The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts by basch on Friday December 07, 2018 @08:50AM (#18627581)
>it pops up as a hangouts message too.

Unless you have google voice installed instead of hangouts. It manages to be two apps still.

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Re:The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts by time-domain0 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @02:18AM (#18616062)
This is what happens when there isn't an unified company product strategy but fiefdoms duplicating and fighting with each other.
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