It’s been a long time since Google last renewed its messaging apps, and we almost thought that the search giant had finally finished constantly modifying its messaging apps and services. Well, it’s not like that.
Today the company announced that it is merging Meet with Duo. Until now, the former was aimed primarily at business users, while the latter was intended as everyone’s video messaging app to compete with Apple’s FaceTime.
Starting in the next few weeks, Google will be adding all the features of Meet to the Duo app. Then, “later this year,” the Duo app will be renamed Google Meet, at which point Meet will be the company’s only video communications service.
At least until Google changes its mind again. And the fact is that Google, and the subject is messaging applications, is practically a fact that it will. The constant launch, shelving, relaunching, branding, new rendering, resurrection, and merging of its various Google messaging-related applications have become so notorious over the years that it’s practically a meme. at this moment.
Anyway, let’s get back to the current merger: Duo will keep all of your existing video calling features even with the new name, and if you’re a Duo user, your conversation history, contacts and messages are safe, as there is no there will be no other. application to download. You only wake up one day and discover that Duo has a new name: Meet and all the extra features you’re used to.
These new features include customizable call and meeting virtual backgrounds, meeting scheduling, meeting chat, live content sharing, real-time captioning, video calling with up to 100 participants, “enhanced video and audio experiences with cancellation of noise “. , and integration with other Google tools such as Gmail, Calendar, Wizard, and Messaging.
If you use Duo or Meet at no cost today, you won’t have to pay anything for the “new experience.” If you are currently using the Meet app, once you change your Duo name to Meet, you will be offered the option to install this app when you open the old Meet app. Until then, the original Meet app will continue to work, and Meet in Gmail won’t be affected by the app’s maneuvers.
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