Wait 6 months and Google will announce Chat is discontinued, as they integrate messaging functionality into a YouTube Music subscription!

Is there any better example of Google’s lack of long term vision than their chat apps?

I’m one of the morons who convinced my friends and family to switch to Allo. I’m gonna sit this one out.

I don’t get it. Are Google employees completely ignoring all the negative press their messaging apps get?

Everyone online agrees, that all these messaging apps that Google keeps pumping, just hurt each other.

Here is a list of every messaging app that Google has ever produced:

Android SMS

Bump!

Cloud to Device Messaging

Chat (not the same as Google Chat)

Disco

Dodgeball

Firebase Cloud Messaging

Gizmo5

Gmail

GTalkService

Google+

Google+ Hangouts (not the same as Google Hangouts)

Google+ Messenger

Google.com/talk

Google Allo

Google Assistant (it really did once have its own text feature)

Google Assistant Messages (and then this but only in a family group)

Google Buzz

Google Chat

Google Cloud Messaging

Google Docs

Google Docs Editor Chat

Google Duo

Google Fi

Google Friend Connect

Google Groups

Google Hangouts

Google Hangouts Chat

Google Hangouts Meet

Google Helpouts

Google Huddle

Google Latitude

Google Maps Messages

Google Meet

Google Messenger SMS

Google Pay Messages

Google Phone Messaging

Google Photos Messages

Google Schemer

Google Spaces (this was basically Google's version of Instagram and it lasted less than a year)

Google Stadia Messages

Google Talk

Google Voice

Google Voice Legacy

Google Voice Third-party Apps

Google Voice for G Suite

Google Voice FXO VoIP Gateway (Obihai)

Google Wave

GrandCentral Communications

Jaiku

Jibe Mobile

Meebo

Messages

Orkut

Postini

Slide

Sparrow

YouTube Messages