Google decided that there were many messaging apps and cut two of them.

Google has announced a redesign of the organization of its messaging applications. Despite the attempt, the mess is still important and at least five of the company's chat apps will be available to users.

• It looks like Google will end Hangouts for consumers in 2020
• Google announces the end of GTalk in the last stage of the transition to Hangouts

Hello and Hangouts are going to say goodbye. It will not disappear forever though – Google has decided to divide it between Hangouts Chat (for SMS) and Hangouts Meet (for video calls).

These two Hangouts options were already available, but only for users of the Google Business Suite, GSuite. From now on, there will be a gradual transition of Hangouts users to these two separate applications – in the official publication of the company, there is no date setting to end the application of 39; origin.

Curiously, another video call application, the Duo,

This seems to add to the confusion of users, but by the way, that's how the band will play. According to Google, the goal is "to provide a more simple and unified communication experience."

Apparently, all of these apps are confusing even for them because Google Voice was not mentioned in the blog article, but had to keep working. .

As ArsTechnica recalls Hangouts is the oldest Google messaging application in operation. The application is available for Android, iOS and the Web. In addition, it was integrated with Gmail and also included an extension for Chrome. The service worked for SMS, voice calls and video calls.

An application that remains and still has to live a long time is the messaging, the standard SMS application of Android. It will incorporate some features of Allo, which had already had its development "paused" earlier this year, and will continue to adopt the RCS standard. Allo will be completely abandoned in March 2019.

Allo and Hangouts will join Google Talk, Google Spaces, Google Wave, Google Messenger and Google Buzz in the company's email application cemetery.

Rest in peace.

[Google, ArsTechnica]