Time to say goodbye to Duo slowly. Google wants to consolidate its messengers
The coronavirus pandemic has had a huge impact on the popularity of services such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Google Meet also benefited from it – which is said to become the main IM service from Google according to the latest plan. Today, Google has quite a few communications services on offer. The most popular are the Duo messenger for video calling, pre-installed on every Android phone, and the Meet messenger, developed mainly (but not only) as a tool for group videoconferencing. The latter saw a big surge in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic – companies using G Suite for work naturally chose Meet as their default meeting tool. Now, according to unconfirmed information, Google intends to combine two services into one universal. It would use technical solutions from Duo to support augmented reality and low requirements for the Internet connection. And from Meeta, useful functions for businesses. Google Duo and Google Meet as one messenger. This alleged merger is to be pa...