I don't care about video, but the article notes that hangouts is being shutdown soon. I'm interested to know what they are doing with fi and the sms gateway.
Personally, I switched to rcs chat (which disabled hangouts), but I would like to get back an rcs web gateway interface. And no, "device pairing" in messages is not the same. If google actually pulls that off I'd be impressed, but I'm not holding my breathe.
Didn’t Hangouts stop receiving SMS for Fi like two years ago? I was very mad because I’m an iOS user, and once that stopped working there was no way to receive SMS in places with WiFi but not cellular.
That’s a constant theme of Google rebranding/mergers: beside confusion, good functional features fall through the cracks.
The sms portion of hangouts was kept working just for Fi users (I assume this is still true to this day... sorry, I'm too lazy to switch and check), while it was switched off for everyone else.
It is indeed the "Google Gold Standard" to "move on to my next promotion".
Personally, I switched to rcs chat (which disabled hangouts), but I would like to get back an rcs web gateway interface. And no, "device pairing" in messages is not the same. If google actually pulls that off I'd be impressed, but I'm not holding my breathe.