What's chat? Not gchat surely? Didn't hangouts migrate to meet?

I believe so. and while it's not significantly worse, it is worse. thumbnails don't populate as consistently, the menu has me full screening a chat sometimes, it's just not as nice.

Together Chat and Meet are the replacement for Hangouts. Meet is also the replacement for Duo.

Allo entered the chat.

Google Wave surfs by: "whazzup, dudes?"

Except meet is a passive teleconf service; duo allowed you to make Video CALLS, like FaceTime.

Google Voice seems to have been added to Enterprise, so I cross my fingers it will prevail.

Lol, so this is the reason I could “call” someone on MS Teams, but in my new org on google chat when I choose to “meet” with someone it just pops a link into their DMs. Bizarre.

If I'm in a 1:1 chat with someone on GChat then the phone/video button just starts a call

Interesting. The only button I have in a 1:1 GChat is a video camera with a plus in the middle, and it simply creates a google meet link which I then send to the other person, and then we both join that link and are talking. The MS Teams functionality was more like a call - I hit the button, and I am in a video chat, and the phone is ringing on the other person's end. Maybe it's just my org's config but I don't have an equivalent function in GChat.

Chat can make video calls like Duo/Meet.

Meet is for (planned) Meetings.

Chat is for text/audio/video chats/calls.

And Zoom is for everyone else who doesn't want to deal with Google's mess

this chat thread is a perfect Google Chats meme