Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1

Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 by TaylorAlexander on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @04:59PM (#22939262)

I guess “meet” being separate makes sense but I have to say that in the Apple ecosystem “Duo” and “Hangouts” have their counterparts in the unified iMessage/FaceTime system.

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Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 by zamadatix on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:35PM (#22940068)

You used to be able to IM, voice chat, video chat, group versions of the former set, Google voice call Google voice sms, do all of the prior transparently on all of your devices, local sms, and local call from Hangouts.

Then they decided that wasn't the way they wanted things and have been slowly killing it off for 5ish years now

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Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 by izacus on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @05:47PM (#22939673)

Hangouts is pretty much a dead product so I see it going away soon anyway.

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Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 by yoz-y on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:06PM (#22939850)

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/01/upcoming-hangou...

There is a timeline, at least for entreprise customers.

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Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 by discreditable on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:33PM (#22940054)

They haven't stuck to that timeline at all.

> Classic Hangouts will be retired for all G Suite customers starting in October 2019

Chat within Gmail is still hangouts. Hangouts.google.com still works. Users still use the hangouts apps.

On the personal side, if you use Google Fi, SMS integration is still only available via Hangouts. This is a somewhat unique feature of Fi and Google Voice. You can send/receive SMS within Hangouts via browser or app all the same. It's not like the Messages app for web (which relies on your phone being online).

They have a newer timeline at https://support.google.com/a/answer/9197126?hl=en&ref_topic=...

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Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 by arkanciscan on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @07:42PM (#22940507)

My guess is they have realized what terrible idea it is to get rid of Hangouts while everyone is still using it.

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Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 by ProZsolt on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:35PM (#22940067)

But that Hangout is not this Hangout. This is a Slack competitor. Same name different product.

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Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 by zamadatix on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @08:24AM (#22944770)

The slack-competitor app is only available on G-Suite and recently dropped the "Hangouts" from the name (now just "Chat" instead of "Hangouts Chat").

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Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 by notatoad on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @01:46AM (#22942638)

no, this hangouts is still that hangouts. the slack competitor is "hangouts chat", the regular old hangouts app from 5 years ago is still going strong and most likely what somebody is talking about when they talk about hangouts.

IIRC, hangouts chat is still only available to paid g-suite customers.

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Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 by buttersbrian on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @08:55PM (#22940954)

Hangouts isn't pushed, but it's a holdover until they finish the merge of duo/video chat into messages, and the GSuite consolidation of meet/chat. There's some cool things coming from google that should have been done earlier, but represents them finally bringing all the pieces together in meaningful manner.

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Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 by qotgalaxy on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @09:46PM (#22941211)

That's what they said when they introduced Hangouts.

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Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 by danielscrubs on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @02:42AM (#22942900)

Sounds like business-speak for internal politics to me.

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Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 by lern_too_spel on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:21PM (#22939964)

I would say the same for Duo.

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Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 by ProZsolt on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:33PM (#22940050)

iMessage counterpart is Messages(with RCS)

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