The Essentials app will act as a hub, letting you access various Google services right from your PC’s start menu. For example, you’ll be able to browse Google Photos and chat through Google ...

The desktop app, a Progressive Web Application (PWA) that runs in any operating system, looks identical to the web app but without the browser interface around it. There are also Google Chat apps ...

The Gmail web portal had a browser-based chat box, so you didn’t need to install any software. There was an Android app, a Windows app, and even a BlackBerry app. Google's messaging ambitions ...