2 Alternatives to Hangouts and Other Communicating Services for OS X with Open Source

Google Hangouts is a communication platform created by Google which incorporates messaging, video chat, SMS, and VOIP features. It replaces three messaging items that Google had executed simultaneously inside its administrations, including Google Talk, Google+ Messenger, and Hangouts, a video chat framework show inside Google+.

Google has likewise expressed that Hangouts is intended to be “the future” of its communication product, Google Voice, and coordinated a portion of the capacities of Google Voice into Hangouts. Their Google+ accounts can message users.

Hangouts can lead a conversation between at least two people. It can be accessed online through the Gmail or Google+ sites or mobile applications accessible for Android and iOS. Instead of the XMPP open standard protocol used by Google Talk, it uses a proprietary protocol.