From Duo wiki:
“ In August 2020, it was reported that Google was planning to eventually replace Google Duo with Google Meet, but would continue to support Duo and "invest in building new features" in the long term.[2]”
I don’t know exactly what that means. Seems like not much and Duo is still a priority. But all the deprecating and switching of Google products makes them a non win for me. It’s hard for me to get friends to try a new service. If it disappoints, the next time is that much harder.
It's no different than Hangouts. We got fed misleading headlines about how it was KILLED for years, but it seems like as far as users are concerned, it'll just be a UI change. Behind the scene they are migrating it to Chat, but all your chats and contacts and histogram will be migrated over.
I would assume something similar with Duo. It'll probably change look and get merged into Meet, but it'll probably still be more or less the same app.
As a Fi user, they did kill Hangouts for me. I can't use it for SMS and its only other advantage is it takes up a large chunk of my gmail tab. Why should I use it?
No one is forcing you to use it, and moving SMS to Voice wasn't great (though Hangouts never really was meant to be an SMS app), but for people like me who have used Hangouts for over a decade to chat with friends and family, it definitely isn't the doomed end most headlines made it sound. My family were asking me if we had to start looking for another place to chat 3 years ago, yet Hangouts is still up and working fine.
yeah who knows, that news came around the time Soltero joined Google and had all the communications apps under him. So far he has done a good job of consolidating Googles messaging platforms and Google Workspace.
Duo is huge in India and I use it a lot with family, so I can vouch that the call video and audio quality is amazing.
Switching apps ( like the whatsapp to signal ) is always painful though.
I don’t know exactly what that means. Seems like not much and Duo is still a priority. But all the deprecating and switching of Google products makes them a non win for me. It’s hard for me to get friends to try a new service. If it disappoints, the next time is that much harder.