Anyone remember Google Allo? I think it had video? If they made it a discord kind of thing it might have worked but instead they chose to compete with their own products.
Allo didn't have video, that was Duo's job. Hangouts Chat is their Slack/Discord competitor, and Hangouts Classic is the version that everyone has in Gmail. Hangouts Meet is their Zoom competitor. Both Hangouts Classic and Meet can video call, I believe. Chat piggybacks off of Meet. Hangouts Chat and Classic are named the same but are two different products.
