Google would have plans to close the Duo video calling service. The service should merge with Meet, the company’s other video calling service. It is currently a rumour.
Google would have informed the development team behind Duo that they are going to work for Meet from now on. Tech site 9To5Google reports this based on anonymous sources.
Google has developed a whole range of chat and calling services in the recent past.
Earlier this year, as video calling services boomed through global query measures, Google made it’s Meet app free and teamed up with Google Hangouts to market a corporate video conferencing service that could compete with Zoom.
Google then said that Meet would exist as a business arm, while Duo should remain focused on consumers.
Management would now have decided that two separate video calling services are a bit too much of a good thing. This may also be accelerated by the work that Google has recently put into the integration of its services.
Google Meet is baked into Gmail and other G Suite apps, something we don’t immediately see happening with Duo.
The amalgamation could take about two years, according to 9To5Google. Google itself says it does not intend to ‘disrupt’ the use of Duo.
