Scott Johnson: No Hangouts Shutdown Date; Transition to Hangouts Chat and Meet

Title shortened due to character limit. Original title from Android Police article:

> "Hangouts executive rebuts rumors of shut down, users will be transitioned to Hangouts Chat and Meet"

Scott Johnson is "director of product management and realtime comms product lead for G Suite (i.e., the guy who runs Hangouts at Google)". His tweet:

https://twitter.com/happyinwater/status/1068861340800958466

> https://9to5google.com/2018/12/01/google-hangouts-shutting-d...

> Hey @hallstephenj, I run Hangouts and this is pretty shoddy reporting. No decisions made about when Hangouts will be shut down. Hangouts users will be upgraded to Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. Your source is severely misinformed. You can do better.

Previous frontpage discussion of the 9to5Google rumor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18572510