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Re:RIP Google Hangouts, Google’s last, best chance to compet... by pjc50 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:45AM (#33421881)
> Talk, which was a federated service with federated identity. Hangouts which was a centralized service with only Google accounts. And Allo which was centralized service using external identities (phone numbers).

I never knew that, and it was far from obvious from the marketing. Actually, was there any marketing?

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