Before Hangouts closes, Google plans to migrate consumers to the Chat and Meet apps
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On Friday, we passed along a report that said communications app Google Hangouts was going to be shutdown for consumers in 2020, and would be turned into a platform for business users only. However, a tweet disseminated yesterday by Hangouts product lead Scott Johnston took a shot at the original source of the story, stating that Google has yet to make a decision when Hangouts will close.

Google Hangouts product lead Scott Johnston says that Google has yet to decide when it will close Hangouts to consumers
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