Comment by PunchyHamster

They did. You can find few attempts here https://killedbygoogle.com/

Google tried to build chat/video conferencing software like 5 times now. Some of attempts were even decent. They just decided that because they instantly didn't win 100% of the market they need to close it.

> For the life of me I cannot understand why they after a decade, has let slack and teams become basically a duopoly in this space.

The only reason Teams is even in the running is it's because it is (was) added for free to the O365 suite so many execs just went "well, since we already have it..."

As a piece of software for voice chats it's okay but as piece of software for text chats it is absolutely atrocious piece of shit that learned zero lessons from anything else and refused to fix anything users actually want