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I doubt it. Hangouts is a widely used tool in the Enterprise.

Not to mention no one is using Allo (based on anecdotes).

To be fair, the primary reason that my wife and I don't use Allo is because it was never available on the web.

EDIT: And now after signing in, I realized that what I /really/ need is a desktop app...

I installed it today out of curiosity - 15 contacts had it installed, and google play reports over 10 milion downloads - so someone must be using it.

That being said - i was perfectly fine with hangouts and hate fragmentation.

How many of those are active users though? According to this story from Jan, there are very few new downloads:

And some of those installs may be due to the spammy nagware scheme google uses to force people to install it so they can see messages:

I honestly have no idea, I installed it out of curiosity to see the web interface built in polymer. Ideally I'd just see google stick to hangouts.