Given the abandonment of Google's abandonment of the app in terms of development and the alleged death, many have already renounced the use of this app. However, Hangouts remains the most prominent chat option in Gmail on the web, and the app remains in the Google Play Store to this day. Many recent reviews show that the app has signs of age, errors and performance problems.
For years, Google has stated that Hangouts is a slug-based competing chat app for the workplace. As 9to5Google noted, there has been no development in the app's development for some time, and Google removed SMS support from Hangouts last May.
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