Rant: Google does not need 5 chat apps, and Hangouts should be the first to die

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by Sindy Cator on May 22, 2016 at 2:30 am

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider, Opinion

In case you haven’t noticed, Google has been busy lately. Among the plethora of news at its I/O conference, it launched three new communication apps in the span of one week: Spaces, Allo and Duo. They join the existing Hangouts and Messenger apps. So here’s something of an obvious rant: Google does not need five chat apps. Heck, that’s six if you want to count YouTube’s new messaging feature. The IM market is already too congested, and each of Google’s apps have at least some overlapping functionality. Don’t get me wrong; I actually like Allo and Duo a lot. There are a lot…