Google unifies messenger teams, plans “more coherent vision”

One person is now in charge of Google's six messaging apps.

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Aligning all of the messaging apps under the G Suite division does seem to line up with a rumor that claimed the G Suite team was planning a "new unified communications app" that would bring in functions from Gmail, Drive, Google Chat, and Google Meet, all with the purpose of fighting enterprise communication apps like Microsoft Teams and Slack.

Considering all the flailing they've done in this space, even if they do create another unified communications app, will anyone trust them enough to use it?

Part of the reason it has been such a disaster is that every new app has a new name. There are like 10 different messaging apps that they pushed for 5 minutes each. If they are going to kill one app and replace it with another that does the same thing they could easily keep the name and just push a software update to everyone.