this chat thread is a perfect Google Chats meme

Together Chat and Meet are the replacement for Hangouts. Meet is also the replacement for Duo.

Allo entered the chat.

Google Wave surfs by: "whazzup, dudes?"

Except meet is a passive teleconf service; duo allowed you to make Video CALLS, like FaceTime.

Google Voice seems to have been added to Enterprise, so I cross my fingers it will prevail.

Chat can make video calls like Duo/Meet.

Meet is for (planned) Meetings.

Chat is for text/audio/video chats/calls.

And Zoom is for everyone else who doesn't want to deal with Google's mess

Lol, so this is the reason I could “call” someone on MS Teams, but in my new org on google chat when I choose to “meet” with someone it just pops a link into their DMs. Bizarre.

If I'm in a 1:1 chat with someone on GChat then the phone/video button just starts a call

Interesting. The only button I have in a 1:1 GChat is a video camera with a plus in the middle, and it simply creates a google meet link which I then send to the other person, and then we both join that link and are talking. The MS Teams functionality was more like a call - I hit the button, and I am in a video chat, and the phone is ringing on the other person's end. Maybe it's just my org's config but I don't have an equivalent function in GChat.

I believe so. and while it's not significantly worse, it is worse. thumbnails don't populate as consistently, the menu has me full screening a chat sometimes, it's just not as nice.