Google has confirmed its plans to combine GoogleDuo and Google Meet into a single video conferencing app later this year.
Google has confirmed that it will be combining two of its major communications services later this year, Google Duo and Meet. More specifically, the more personal video chat system, Duo will meld into the more professional video system Meet and they will be branded under a single name, Google Meet.
Google announced the upcoming changes on its Google Workspace blog on Wednesday, detailing that Google Duo end users don’t need to take any action as long as they have the latest version of the app installed.✅ All of the features from Google Meet are getting added into Google Duo✅ Except on the web, where the existing Meet app will remain in place… The transition is expected to begin in the coming weeks with Google Meet features being added to the Google Duo app.
“What’s been really important is understanding how people make the choice as to what tool they’re going to use, for what purpose, in what circumstance,” head of Google Workspace Javier Soltero told The Verge. In the past the brand has attempted in introduce different communication services for different purposes, only to see users favor some over others. We’ve seen a similar fate with services, such as the instant messenger Google Allo, which proved not as effective in the brand’s long-term plan.
9to5Google noted that Google Duo has 5 billion Android downloads, in comparison to Google Meet, which has over 100 million downloads. In this case; however, it seems clear that the merging of the two apps is simply a numbers game, as opposed to scrapping Duo altogether.
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