Google kills Hangouts — but its dreams of Gmail dethroning Slack feel far away

Google shut down Hangouts for Workspace in February, but that’s not enough for the search giant: it’s now killing the mobile Hangouts app as well. In a recent blogpost, the tech behemoth announced that it’ll bid farewell to the feature in November 2022. People still using Hangouts are urged to switch to the Chat app or Chat in Gmail. Credit: Google As for Hangouts users on the web? Well, Google won’t start nagging for you to switch until July. The company will automatically transfer your existing conversations to Chat. But just in case, it encourages users to download their data…

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