5 reasons Allo and Duo make Hangouts and Messenger obsolete

On Wednesday during the Google I/O opening keynote, the company announced two new messaging platforms: Allo and Duo. Before diving into some of the features that set the two new apps apart from existing Google messaging platforms, let's take a moment to count just how many messaging services Google now has. On second thought, that would take too long--it's far too many. Anyone watching the keynote probably noticed the number of times the various presenters referred to Google's Hangouts and Messenger apps: excatly zero times. Google knows Hangouts and Messenger are dead.