"Hangcots" are now threatened by individual consumers, with Google planning to close them by the end of 2020, according to the company's 9 to 5 Google website.
The application has been suffering from an identity crisis since its launch as an alternative to the application of the "Chat" in 2013, and has been losing advantages since the company stopped updating in recent years, and took advantage of SMS.
The change is part of the company's focus on the Hangcats, which will remain secure as a communications tool in the HangoutShat framework as part of the G Suite suite of applications, as well as within the HangcottMeeting video conferencing platform.
In April, Google hinted that it would abandon its own messaging application when it announced a new chat feature within the Android system that faced the IASEGase feature of Apple's iOS system. , So it is an alternative to traditional text messaging service.
The Chat feature is based on a standard called Rich Communication Services (RCS). Google has been quietly trying to make major cellular operators around the world adopt this standard.
Shat has not yet officially launched its launch date, but reports say RSS support for the messaging system will come in early 2019. This timing is in line with the closure of the Hangouts application in 2020.