[nunez]

Despite Google's confused messaging strategy, I am actually okay with this. This is the clearest indication I've seen of a clear, targetted approach from them on the messaging front.

Hangouts was/is amazing for conf calls, so they took that, made it simpler and called it Meet. Hangouts was less awesome for chat, but a lot of people are using it and Slack, so they took the good things from Slack, revamped the chat experience and called it Chat.

Their intro explainer has quotes from people in large corporations saying how good it is and scenarios of these products being used for "work things."

I like this and hope that it rises in prominence.