Or transferred to the strategy department to decide what the next in thing is so they can build multiple versions of it, seeing as they are now bored of messaging.
Nah - they're only taking a temporary break from messaging apps... They'll be back at it in a year or two.
They're not taking a break. I was just force-migrated from "hangouts" to "chat with gmail."
It's less of a migration and more of a rebranding. The same service has gone by the name Chat > Hangouts > Chat but has been pretty consistent through each step.