{"id":41448,"date":"2014-03-18T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/18\/google-continues-consolidating-into-hangouts.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T16:18:00","slug":"google-continues-consolidating-into-hangouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/18\/google-continues-consolidating-into-hangouts.html","title":{"rendered":"Google continues consolidating into Hangouts"},"content":{"rendered":"
Which, frankly, is fine by me. I merged the text messaging function into Hangouts, and aside from some artificial barriers between IM and SMS, it works great (and is one less icon to juggle). I've never used Google Voice as a full-blown service, but it makes sense to combine things still further, if the internal navigation is reasonable.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve heard that Google Voice is getting dragged to the trash can and most of its functionality will be incorporated into G+ Hangouts apps on both Android and iOS. This has already happened to an extent with the ability to phone friends on Hangouts, but\u2026\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Google plans kill Google Voice ‘in months’, integrate features into Hangouts<\/a>
\n We’ve heard that Google Voice is getting dragged to the trash can and most of its functionality will be incorporated into G+ Hangouts apps on both Android and iOS. This has already happened to an e…\n <\/p>\n

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Which, frankly, is fine by me. I merged the text messaging function into Hangouts, and aside from some artificial barriers between IM and SMS, it works great (and is one less icon to juggle). I've never used Google Voice as a full-blown service, but it makes sense to combine things still further, if the internal … Continue reading “Google continues consolidating into Hangouts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132953,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/01\/another-nail-in-the-google-hangouts-coffin.html","url_meta":{"origin":41448,"position":0},"title":"Another nail in the Google Hangouts coffin","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 1-Mar-17 10:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, they keep saying they aren't actually getting rid of Hangouts ... but between splitting off capabilities from it on the consumer side into new apps (Messenger, Duo, Allo), and now duplicating \/ expanding functionality into new business-side apps, not to mention restricting API usage ... 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