Goodbye forever Duo: Google begins to eliminate the last of its great failures in communication and messaging applications.
After several years of chaos with its communication solutions, as well as failure after failure, it seems that Google wants to speed up the homogenization and simplification of these basic applications, which first started the dismissal of Hangouts to integrate it into Chat and now they also announce the end of Google Duo, a service that for its part will be merged with Meet.
The colleagues at SamMobile told us about it following the trail of 9to5Google, although in reality the convergence of the Duo and Meet platforms had already been confirmed by Google a few weeks ago, reporting from Mountain View that it will be at the end of this year when Duo will be replaced completely for the new Meet application, which of course will gradually receive all the functionalities of Google Duo.
The news now is that Google has already taken the first step towards integration, starting by directly informing users of its video call services, as Duo applications have begun to show some users a card that indicates that "Duo is improving even more", with information on what is coming in the coming months.
In fact, when the card is opened, this message is displayed, which could not be more clear and concise:
Your Duo app will become Meet, with a new name and icon and more features like background effects.
As we already told you, this card is still shown only to a small portion of users who use the latest version of the Google Duo app, specifically the build 169.0.459621665.duo.android_20220612.16_p6.
In it we will find some interactivity to show us the news that is to come, because in addition to the message we will see two buttons that we can click and that indicate 'I have it' and 'More information', with a functionality in each case that is quite intuitive.
If we click on 'Got it' we will be shown options to create a new meeting or schedule in Google Calendar, features that were exclusive to Meet, while if we click on the 'Learn more' button we will be redirected to a support article where They show us all the recent changes and news of Google Duo.
In addition to the card that starts the integration process, with this new compilation you will receive virtual backgrounds for your video conferences , text chats during meetings and real-time subtitles, as well as increasing the limit of people in a group video call from 32 up to 100 participants.
Every cloud has a silver lining! Let's see if this one is the charm with Google's communication options...
