Google Duo could be absorbed by Google Meet

Yes, what you are reading, Google Duo would have its days numbered. The company is already working to make Google Meet its main video calling application, occupying the position that until now was Google Duo and what would cause its disappearance. The number of projects started and canceled by the Mountain View company is well known, without achieving a stable application system. Being above all its weak point those that offer video calls, a storm looms just when it seemed that they had finally managed to find the key, or that was the feeling. Never be fooled by appearances.

The begining of everything

It all started with Google Talk, an instant messaging application launched in 2005 in which it used XMPP protocols to connect clients, achieving something historic up to that point and making many think that it would be the beginning of the use of this somewhat more universal protocol. and grow its benefits. Nothing could be further from reality, in 2013 it was replaced by Hangouts, managing to unite the users of both and Google+ Messenger in one, going over time to the appearance in 2016 of two apps that came together, Google Duo and Google Allo, the second disappearing and the first remaining as the only survivor, getting more than a billion downloads, and adding Allo to the list of failed projects of the company and therefore, to its oblivion.
This came to revolutionize the market, with free download, it always offered the best video quality and allowing calls between devices with different operating systems, you could now call your friends no matter what phone they had. Now with the evolution and scope that Google Meet has achieved, it seems that the future is heading towards this as the only integrating application of this functionality.

A battle in which only one can remain

According to some sources from 9to5Google, within the giant G company they are in full discussion about what to do in the future with Google Meet and Google Duo, since both have very similar characteristics and this causes that they overlap on many occasions . The idea that is handled is that the first absorbs the second and for this they have been moving towards this point making Google Duo more and more similar to Meet, making it the real alternative to Zoom.
The differences between the two are minimal and in recent times Google Duo has seen how its number of users who wanted to make group video calls have increased, which has been raised as one of its points against, because the Duo name already loses all its sense.
At the moment there is no final or official decision, everything indicates that Meet will win this somewhat unbalanced battle and will become the queen of Google's video calling and messaging applications.
All these movements would be the response of Google in its own competition with Zoom, not dividing its users and concentrating all in a single app.

Google Duo keeps getting renewed

Its main value is the simplicity with which its millions of users can use it and what differentiates it from other applications of this type. Despite all this uncertainty and without knowing what is going to happen, for the moment Google Duo will not stop receiving updates and discovering new features, such as the ability to send videos through it. It is one of its most unknown and at the same time most striking characteristics. If someone does not answer your video call, from the app itself it allows you to send a text message, but if what you want is to send a video or a photograph without having to call first it is also possible. These types of messages have an expiration of 24 hours, as happens in other applications and you have the possibility to delete or save them.
According to the sources themselves, the chronology that has been marked for this merger could still take two years, so we still have Duo for a while, and to all this we must add that there is no change of route from Google itself.