While Messages and RCS is how Google wants you to message friends, Google Chat also fits that role and the company today reminded us...

tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo’s) successor, google chat.

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Why is it written with collectivist speak? "…reminds us…? Who is the “us”? The collectivist phrasing is disturbing as opposed to using objective terms.

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“Us” the audience. It’s just a turn of phrase that headline writers use - nothing deep

And the website is specifically for followers of Google news.

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