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A Google Chat service? Which one?

They've consolidated mostly on https://chat.google.com. Hangouts is nearly dead (Starting a video call just sends a message with a Google meet link, and messaging is compatible with Chat so there's no barrier for switching) and Allo is dead and Talk is long dead. Basically the only things they have for chat now are Chat (basically a Slack clone), Messages (a SMS/MMS/RCS app for Android), and Voice (VoIP with SMS/MMS).

The next one, of course. It's always the next one.

The one called Chat, that's why it was capitalised.

Espacially sinced a lot of people use their phone way more than their computer (if they have one), and multitasking on the phone is extra hard.

Workspace already solved that by embedding every app in the sidebar of every other app.