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by Dylan16807 4121 days ago
Odd, I have a memory of my phone telling me that hangouts was a replacement for talk..

Not that it matters. Pushing a change "as an update" is a detail of how the app database works. It has no bearing on whether it's a replacement or not.

Wikipedia sure seems to think they're different things, and they love to merge articles.

Also if it's not a replacement they sure could have chosen better wording for: "Google Talk app for Windows will stop working on Feb 16 2015. It is replaced by the new Hangouts Chrome app."