{"id":335543,"date":"2017-03-11T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/03\/10\/google-insists-hangouts-for-consumers-isnt-going-away\/21|21879612"},"modified":"2017-03-11T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T21:13:00","slug":"google-insists-hangouts-for-consumers-isnt-going-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/google-insists-hangouts-for-consumers-isnt-going-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Google insists Hangouts for consumers isn&#8217;t going away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which came hours after he identified the product focuses for Google&#8217;s messaging apps:<\/p>\n<div class=\"c6\" readability=\"5.9651898734177\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"5.5063291139241\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This further crystallizes our efforts around Allo and Duo for consumers and Hangouts for productivity\/business users<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amit Fulay (@amitfulay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amitfulay\/status\/839915915739226112\">March 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Obviously, &#8220;not going anywhere&#8221; has no time frame, but at least that means consumer Hangouts probably won&#8217;t be replaced tomorrow. It will almost certainly be at some point, as consumer apps relying on the old platform won&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/01\/06\/apps-that-rely-on-google-hangouts-wont-work-after-april-25th\/\">work<\/a> after April 25th. In Google&#8217;s long obsession with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/05\/19\/why-google-cant-stop-making-messaging-apps\/\">churning<\/a> out chat platforms, it&#8217;s never quite certain which of last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/05\/18\/google-not-killing-hangouts-for-allo\/\">promises<\/a> the company will keep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/dims-shared\/dims3\/GLOB\/crop\/960x540+0+0\/resize\/1600x900!\/format\/jpg\/quality\/85\/http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/c7b5b0ae82e4d1fad3a5060b09ae1010\/202211471\/hangouts.jpg\" \/>After announcing their new AI-powered chat platforms Allo and Duo last September, Google seems to be sunsetting the old and busted Hangouts in favor of their new hotness. Several other announcements seemed to confirm that strategy, including a Hangou&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-335543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}