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The company just shoved the app on Android phones by default and rarely said a word about it again. The company never marketed the app to a wide audience. As far as I’m aware, it only had a dark and light theme to go along with its classic green layout. Google could’ve made it more consumer-friendly with stickers, themes, filters, and other fun little extras.

Google didn’t market to consumers: Hangouts was never the thing to use in the mainstream.

It otherwise competed for attention with something else Google was doing.

There was only a small amount of time where Hangouts had the spotlight. It’s honestly difficult to keep track of. Google’s identity crisis confused everybody: By the time Hangouts retired, Google had released six other messaging apps, and that didn’t include platform-specific ones like YouTube Messenger, Google Maps Messages, or integrated chats in Google Photos, Google Docs, etc.Hangouts didn’t do much to push the envelope forward after that, allowing competitors to overtake Hangouts with features like true end-to-end encryption, self-destructing messages, and others. Well, unfortunately for Google, the concept of a group video chat isn’t unique, so eventually, the big dogs caught up to Hangouts. Competitors caught up: The charm of Hangouts was its strong set of base features.Hangouts received updates for a while afterward, but it was never the center of attention after 2015. That number doesn’t include the retired Google Talk. By the end of 2016, Google had started its messaging identity crisis and had three other chat apps (Messages, Allo, and Duo). The app launched in 2013 and was Google’s flagship chat app.

Google gave up after only two years: This is probably the biggest issue.You can add your own reasons in the comments if you like. So here’s how I think Google messed up with Hangouts. Of course, if everything were sunshine and rainbows, this article wouldn’t exist. The conversation list rarely felt cluttered or unmanageable. Most of the menus were easy to understand. Chats were laid out in a neat, orderly way. In addition to the list above, Hangouts was just really easy to use. However, back in 2013, few competitors could go toe-to-toe with Google Hangouts in terms of baseline features. It made the process much easier because it was already there. Since almost everybody with an Android device has a Google account, nobody really had to sign up for Hangouts. Everybody had it: Google Hangouts accounts were attached to your Google account.

It kept up with current tech: While Google was actively trying, Hangouts was always among the first to integrate new Android features, like Android Nougat’s Quick Reply feature or messaging with Google Assistant (called Google Now at the time).For its time, this was an incredibly strong set of features that few other messaging platforms could emulate. You could do all of those things in group chats as well. Strong features: Google Hangouts could do it all - text chat, SMS, MMS, video chat, and voice calls.Having it in the same spot as your social media made it an excellent communication tool. Being able to message people and have your email on the same webpage made it a great productivity tool.

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Strong integration with Google: You could access Gmail and Google Plus Hangouts.

It was on Android, iOS, and any desktop or laptop computer with a web browser, regardless of the operating system. Most messaging apps have caught up, but this was a pretty big deal when Hangouts first launched.

Cross-platform support: Hangouts had some of the best cross-platform support of any messaging app in its day.

Let’s go over some of the best parts of Hangouts. On paper, the product did a lot correctly. It launched in an era when messaging apps were just starting to find themselves. Google Hangouts did a lot of things right.