[Update: Hangouts product manager responds] Google reportedly killing Hangouts in 2020, probably launching 8 new messaging services in its place

• Update 1: 2018/12/01 9:12am PST
  Google's Product Lead for Communications, Scott Johnston, called the original report "shoddy reporting" and states no decisions have been made about shutting Hangouts down. https://t.co/QgYfj03ADn Hey

For the last few years (since Google launched and the effectively killed Allo), Hangouts has been slowly dying. Bits of it have been broken off, and others were outright killed. According to a report by 9to5Google's Stephen Hall, its days are very literally numbered.

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