Even if it does it will be too late because M$ already cornered the part of the market where it actually makes money
No way. Building the next chat service is the #1 way to get promo at google.
This. They’ll build and subsequently abandon their own new service.
Google does not buying useful companies
I selected 'No' The battle for supremacy in enterprise collaboration and messaging will be won by the company that can best blend personal assistants and proprietary analytics, with a focus on business productivity. Google is so well positioned for that. Why not focus on that as a distinction and then build the rest around that? The functional overlap of Slack and Hangouts would also require some rationalization, which would likely be a challenge. Both vendors offer platforms that support APIs, third-party and custom integrations, and extensions into other vendor ecosystems, so decisions would have to be made about strategy and prioritization, as well as logical avenues for consolidations
Hangouts is a terrible product and Google would be wise to kill it.
Didn’t google kill like 10/20 messaging services already anyway