I have 1 Gmail account and 2 Google Apps accounts. I use Gtalk and have G+ configured on the Gmail, and 1 domain has Gtalk enabled and G+ disabled, and the other has both disabled.
This morning I installed Hangouts on my Android as I read the press about how this would replace Gtalk and figured I should get used to the interface.
What is now displayed confuses me greatly.
Is this G+? How come this app is working on the domains on which it is disabled?
Is this Gtalk? How come I cannot see/find my Gtalk contacts and my native Gmail account is showing me what I recognise as circles in the place I would expect to see my Gtalk contacts.
Where are the archived chats from Gtalk? Still archived in my Gmail? If so, why does this app say I have no archived chats? Will future archived items be in my Gmail? Even for the domains in which G+ is disabled (if, as I'm currently assuming they will actually be in G+ because otherwise it would show the archived chats that are in my Gmail)?
The native Gmail seems to allow group chat, but the corporate account doesn't... why?
It asked to confirm my number, but doesn't seem to like the fact that all three accounts are 1 number... why? I am the same person, several accounts and 1 phone.
I simply don't know what Hangouts is as a product and how the various accounts I have will work or what options should be set where to make it predictable.
And just to top off the confusion, my girlfriend has clearly added the app too, as I got a confused email from her and 5 minutes later an email asking me to install Whats App.
I feel I've gone from something I knew and had control of, to something that really confuses. I've told my girlfriend to just send me an email or call me... we can both just understand that.
Is there some epiphany I'm missing?
Edit: This is in the context of someone who is very familiar with the existing/old offerings and used them a fair bit. It's the 'replacing' bit and not being able to see anything familiar or old in the new which makes it confounding.