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I thought this was product was dead.



Maybe you're thinking of Allo which was released at the same time. Pretty sure Duo is fairly widely used.


Is it?

I can reach more non-technical people on Signal than on Duo.


Reverse for me. Small sample size though.


Google will kill the name and incorporate it into Meet once they add multiuser support....


They've been in the process of shutting down Hangouts for about half a decade now. I'll keep using it until it doesn't work.


Duo already has multiuser (8 or 12 max) support. It's intended to be a competitor to FaceTime. Meet is intended to be a competitor to Zoom. They're not getting combined anytime soon, even if Hangouts is going to die.


I know zero non-technical people who even know what Signal is. Duo is on a big chunk of Android phones out there by default.


Maybe it was, but right now it has gotten repriotized because of the coronavirus and Zoom valuation.

Anyways I welcome the competition.


Same. I could have swore they canceled this. Maybe they had a chance of hear or I’m confusing it..


Why would you think that? Were you thinking of Allo?


Give it 6 months. This is Google we're talking about, they'll kill it soon enough.


Nah, it's not popular. They'll wait until someone is actually using Duo before announcing its sudden demise. They'll probably open up an API first to make it all the more painful.




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