Tech – Google Hangouts shows a notification or message on opening the app on the 27th March in the US and/or UK directing users to switch to another app for SMS.

Created by jbeshir on 2017-03-25; known on 2017-03-28; judged wrong by jbeshir on 2017-03-31.

• jbeshir estimated 60% on 2017-03-25
• jbeshir said “https://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2017/03/google-reportedly-removing-sms-texting-from-hangouts-on-may-22/” on 2017-03-25
• tedks estimated 20% on 2017-03-28
• jbeshir said “No reports of this, https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/03/updates-in-g-suite-to-streamline-hangouts-and-gmail.html and other sources say “in the next few weeks”, I’d strongly expect reports saying this had happened if it had, deciding wrong.” on 2017-03-31
• jbeshir   judged this prediction wrong on 2017-03-31.