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Google announced today that it\u2019s combining two of its video-calling apps, Duo and Meet, into a single platform. Pretty soon, there will be only Google Meet, and Google\u2019s hoping it can be the one calling app users need for just about everything in their lives.<\/p>\n

By bringing them both together, Google\u2019s hoping it can solve some of what ails modern communication tools. \u201cWhat\u2019s been really important is understanding how people make the choice as to what tool they\u2019re going to use, for what purpose, in what circumstance,\u201d says Javier Soltero, the head of Google Workspace. Our digital lives are filled with a million different chat apps, each with its own rules and norms and contact list, some for work purposes and some for personal ones. Google\u2019s hoping it can use Gmail addresses and phone numbers to bring all that together. \u201cIt\u2019s really important and powerful to be able to reach you that way,\u201d Soltero says, \u201cand allow you then to decide whether you want to be reached or not, as opposed to having to manage all of these different identities and deal with the consequences.\u201d <\/p>\n

Soltero has been preaching this idea of \u201creachability\u201d for most of his tenure at Google, and it has led Google to integrate Meet and Chat into so many of its other services. It\u2019s a good goal, but it comes at a cost: adding everything to everything has made some of Google\u2019s services cluttered and complicated. You can start a meeting from anywhere! But… do you actually want to? Streamlining your communication choices is a good idea, but haphazardly cramming everything together doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

Over the last couple of years in particular, Meet has become a powerful platform for meetings and group chats of all kinds, while Duo has stayed more of a messaging app. Google promises it\u2019s bringing all of Duo\u2019s features to Meet going forward and seems convinced it can offer the best of both worlds.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not quite right to say that Duo\u2019s being killed, though. The app, which Google originally launched in 2016 as an easy way to make one-to-one video calls, does a number of useful things that Meet doesn\u2019t. For one thing, you can call someone directly \u2014 including with their phone number \u2014 rather than relying on sending links or hitting that giant Meet button in your Google Calendar invite. Duo has always been more like FaceTime than Zoom<\/a> in that sense. (Google also launched an iMessage competitor, Allo, at the same time as Duo. Allo didn\u2019t turn out so great.) <\/p>\n

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As the two services become one, Google is leaning on Duo\u2019s mobile app as the default. Pretty soon, the Duo app will get an update that brings an onslaught of Meet features into the platform; later this year, the Duo app will be renamed Google Meet. The current Meet app will be called \u201cMeet Original,\u201d and eventually deprecated. <\/p>\n

This sounds… confusing, but Google claims it\u2019s the best way forward. \u201cThe Duo mobile app had a lot of sophistication, especially under the hood,\u201d says Dave Citron, the director of product for Google\u2019s video products. \u201cEspecially in emerging markets, where network connectivity was sparse or highly variable.\u201d On the web, it\u2019s different; Meet is the much more developed web platform, so that forms the base of the new combined system. But in both cases, \u201cthe idea is 100% of the functionality,\u201d Citron said, \u201ccombined forces, and no users left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is yet another effort from Google to unify some of its previously disparate parts<\/a>, making the Google suite of services make more coherent and cohesive sense. Soltero said that as Meet has grown during the pandemic, it became the obvious place for Google to concentrate its voice and video efforts going forward. And he\u2019s hopeful that over time, the Meet brand can come to mean more than just \u201cmeeting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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