Google will change the name of Hangouts Meet to simply “Google Meet”

Google is reputed to kill your apps without taste. However, Hangouts has survived the ax despite Google’s deliberation to shut it down, or replace it with apps named after it, for more than three years. Since then, he’s been talking about “updating” users of the classic Hangouts app to Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. Last year, Google pushed the deadline to get users to switch to new platforms, but it may have finally started to ditch the old lineage. A new report suggests that Hangouts Meet may simply be renamed Google Meet as we get closer to the migration date.

The Hangouts Meet support page now refers to the service as “Google Meet.” Starting with the heading, Meet is now Google Meet on the newly added parts of the website and Android Police notes that these changes were made “Very recently. However, the Hangouts branding has not been entirely omitted and we can still see it in the headline and earlier parts of the documentation.

Hangouts Chat is still called the same and the exclusive treatment for Meet makes sense because it is projected as a solution for business users. By competing with services like Zoom and Skype, Google Meets is likely to be received much better with the new brand compared to an app emerging from the ruins of Hangouts’ dented brand.

For G Suite users, Google plans to start the transition from classic Hangouts to newer platforms in June 2020. Also for free users, the transition is expected to start in 2020, but the exact deadlines have yet to be shared. .

Chat, which would replace the classic Hangouts dashboard in Gmail for both G Suite and free users, could also follow suit in the future, especially as it is meant to challenge much more reputed and celebrated services like Slack and Microsoft Teams.

Meanwhile, Google also allows G Suite users to enjoy premium features on Google Meet until September 30, and this is perhaps to keep the workflow unrestricted despite the restrictions due to COVID-19.

Update: Google confirms impending rebrand to Google Meet

Google has confirmed that Hangouts Meet will be renamed to Google Meet. The change of brand will be carried out continuously, which is supposed to mean that it will take time for the brand change to be implemented in all product lines.

Source: AndroidPolice