{"id":3078,"date":"2016-08-26T10:32:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:32:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:32:20","slug":"google-duo-downloaded-5-million-times-on-android-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=3078","title":{"rendered":"Google Duo downloaded 5 million times on Android in one week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[metaslider id=3087]<\/p>\n<p>Google Duo is, as the company has described, \u201ca simple 1-to-1 video calling app available for Android and iOS.\u201d It\u2019s doing well so far.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Its aim is to dumb down video calling as much as possible, though not in those words, of course. \u201cDuo takes the complexity out of video calling, so that you can be together in the moment wherever you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That philosophy of stripped down and simplified video calling is a success so far. Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweeted the news that Duo had exceeded 5 million Android downloads alone in its first week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Google Duo now over 5M Android downloads in a week! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ctwn131gYq\">https:\/\/t.co\/ctwn131gYq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sundarpichai\/status\/768657715962839041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[metaslider id=3087] Google Duo is, as the company has described, \u201ca simple 1-to-1 video calling app available for Android and iOS.\u201d It\u2019s doing well so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}