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		adrianmonk on April 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 They already had Hangouts when they started creating Duo, so maybe it means duo-ver (do-over).

brokensegue on April 21, 2020 [–]

Duo was originally announced alongside "Allo". But Allo was killed off last year https://allo.google.com/

adrianmonk on April 22, 2020 | [–]

Yes, I'm familiar with the history. The tendency to launch things, kill them off, and launch something else was kind of the point of the joke.

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