It’s hard to say exactly what is getting deleted, but it’s easy to download.

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        Remember Allo ? What a disaster that was. Duo was actually not that bad but they already had Hangouts which did both

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          Why they just didn’t update Hangouts with new features instead of launching two new apps is a mystery to me. Great way to lose all reputation that was left.

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            It’s sad how in an era where name recognition means everything, they removed Hangouts when it was a widely known, positive brand. Made me really question their product/marketing team lol

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            It’s because Google’s corporate culture rewards new products over maintaining old ones. They’ll happily dump a product even with tens of millions of users to push a new one. Funnily enough the main Google products I see consistent mainstream usage of is all the old ones.