Google Duo & Meet Merging: Here's What You Need To Know
Google Duo and Google Meet will soon be merged together into one app, creating a unified video-calling service in the process. For those familiar with Google’s various apps and services, the merging of the two might not be all that surprising considering the general overlap between their core purposes. For Google Duo users, however, the change is something they will want to be aware of before the merge actually takes effect.
Google has always had a complicated relationship with communications apps, resulting in a variety of different, and often conflicting, options throughout the years. This has also resulted in various changes over that time as well. For example, Google closed down its Google+ social media network with no replacement, merged Inbox by Gmail with the standard Gmail, and replaced Hangouts with Google Chat. Of course, there was also Google Allo which launched in the same year as Duo, but then closed down again in March, 2019.
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The latest change to Google’s communications apps will see Google Duo and Google Meet becoming a single app, resulting in some changes. Firstly, Google has confirmed that all of the features currently available through Meet will soon be added to the Duo app. While that might seem like Duo is what’s living on in the future, the opposite is actually the case. According to Google, the Duo app will be rebranded as Google Meet later in the year. It is this new version of the Meet app which will then live on as Google's "single, powerful, easy-to-use solution."
Arguably, the merging of the two services will be a bigger change for Duo users. In its current form, the Duo app is a lightweight app which makes it quick and
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