tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo’s) successor, google chat.

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    1 year ago

    The article says

    Just to recap: Google Talk (gchat) > Google Hangouts > Hangouts Chat > Google Chat

    but of course that’s only part of the story. Here’s a longer recap from 2021.