[AnonC]

> Soltero tells me that there are no immediate plans to change or integrate any of Google’s apps, so don’t get your hopes up for that (yet). “We believe people make choices around the products that they use for specific purposes,” Soltero says.

> Still, Google’s communications apps are in dire need of a more coherent and opinionated production development...

No immediate plans, but there’s a need for coherency. I’m expecting a new “one communication app to rule them all” within a few months (which likely means a few more rounds of existing apps being canned and consolidated “to eliminate user confusion”).