As the company announced today, the messaging service that allowed Gmail users to talk to each other since it launched in 2005, will now be completely retired.Įven while Google pushed Hangouts as its consumer messaging service (before Allo, Duo, Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet) over the last few years, it still allowed die-hard Gtalk users (and there are plenty of them) to stick to their preferred chat app. The days of Google Talk are quickly coming to an end.
