![]() Business users won’t lose all their apps in legacy Hangouts The ultimate goal seems to be to drive consumers toward Allo and Duo, Google’s new chat tools, while leaving the old Hangouts in maintenance mode. Hangouts’ move to the enterprise as Meet and Chat doesn’t mean you won’t be able to use it as a consumer, though: The old Hangouts is sticking around, albeit without an API or any apps that extend its usefulness. “ API was originally intended to support social scenarios for consumer users as part of Google+, whereas Hangouts is now turning to focus on enterprise use cases,” Google said in an update to the API’s FAQ page. ![]() SEE: Microsoft leads the pack in enterprise collaboration tools–but for how long? (TechRepublic) Along with that Google formally shifted Hangouts’ focus away from consumers and toward the enterprise. Google split Hangouts into two products earlier this year: Meet for video conferencing, and Chat for text messaging. ![]() Why has Google discontinued the Hangouts API? Come April 25 those apps will be unceremoniously dumped, and all that will be left is the barebones Hangouts and a few apps that Google is allowing to continue unaffected. Support for the API has already ended, and Hangouts apps are set to stop working in just a couple weeks.ĭevelopers and users of Hangouts apps won’t get a whole lot of notification, either: Just an onscreen message during Hangouts calls if an affected app is in use. It’s been several months since Google announced the discontinuation of the Hangouts API, but the news has largely flown under the radar. ![]()
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