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Google really has nailed usability with Duo. It's clean and fast and easy to use. The potential is there. If I was optimistic, I'd say their strategy will be to

by ryandvm 10y ago

Google really has nailed usability with Duo. It's clean and fast and easy to use. The potential is there. If I was optimistic, I'd say their strategy will be to force their way into the market by integrating it into the OS via Contacts or maybe even lower. Of course Hangouts had potential too. And then Slack came along and ate their lunch on the business side. It's really kind of ridiculous that every single organization that I know of that uses Google Apps has decided to ignore Hangouts and use Slack instead. How shitty must your free group chat client be that your customers are paying to replace it... I feel like Google is my corporate spirit animal because we operate the exact same why. We both like to start super cool side projects, get 70% of the way through it and then just completely lose interest.

sbarre 10y ago
Huh.. I had never looked at Duo and I scrolled down the landing page and saw "Preview incoming video calls before accepting them" and now I want FaceTime and Skype to immediately integrate that.. That's a killer feature..
- sorenjan 10y ago
  Why? Are you going to decline calls based on the preview? How do you explain that to the other person?
  - zeveb 10y ago
    > Are you going to decline calls based on the preview? How do you explain that to the other person? From the calling end, the person just sees that you didn't pick up, right? So he wouldn't know that you declined because of the preview.
- CoryG89 10y ago
  Maybe it's just me, but I kind of find this a bit creepy. It seems to me that it would be similar if the phone companies allowed you to listen to someone calling you while it was still ringing for them. Maybe it's not quite what I am thinking though. I can't tell if the video preview is live or if it's something recorded before the call is made.
  - thebaer 10y ago
    It's live, and it says at the top: "the camera is on" basically. It's like the call already started as far as the caller is concerned -- no ringing necessary.
  - zeveb 10y ago
    > Maybe it's just me, but I kind of find this a bit creepy. As long as the person on the other end knows that he's on-camera, I think it's NBD. The trick is ensuring that eh really does know that, and isn't picking his teeth, washing his hands &c.
    - what_ever 10y ago
      Actually the person calling is on camera and the person on the receiving end sees the preview. Person on the receiving end is not on the camera until they accept the call.
      - zeveb 10y ago
        That's what I meant — the caller is on-camera, the callee is not, the caller knows he's on-camera, all is well with the world.
  - tw04 10y ago
    The person calling is the one who is being previewed. As the caller you can disable it if you don't like the feature.
  - robotresearcher 10y ago
    I screen lots of calls via the ansaphone on my landline. It's a feature I would miss if I went mobile-phone-only. I like the idea for video calls too.

by ryandvm 10y ago

sbarre 10y ago

Huh.. I had never looked at Duo and I scrolled down the landing page and saw "Preview incoming video calls before accepting them" and now I want FaceTime and Skype to immediately integrate that.. That's a killer feature..

sorenjan 10y ago
Why? Are you going to decline calls based on the preview? How do you explain that to the other person?
- zeveb 10y ago
  > Are you going to decline calls based on the preview? How do you explain that to the other person? From the calling end, the person just sees that you didn't pick up, right? So he wouldn't know that you declined because of the preview.
CoryG89 10y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I kind of find this a bit creepy. It seems to me that it would be similar if the phone companies allowed you to listen to someone calling you while it was still ringing for them. Maybe it's not quite what I am thinking though. I can't tell if the video preview is live or if it's something recorded before the call is made.
- thebaer 10y ago
  It's live, and it says at the top: "the camera is on" basically. It's like the call already started as far as the caller is concerned -- no ringing necessary.
- zeveb 10y ago
  > Maybe it's just me, but I kind of find this a bit creepy. As long as the person on the other end knows that he's on-camera, I think it's NBD. The trick is ensuring that eh really does know that, and isn't picking his teeth, washing his hands &c.
  - what_ever 10y ago
    Actually the person calling is on camera and the person on the receiving end sees the preview. Person on the receiving end is not on the camera until they accept the call.
    - zeveb 10y ago
      That's what I meant — the caller is on-camera, the callee is not, the caller knows he's on-camera, all is well with the world.
- tw04 10y ago
  The person calling is the one who is being previewed. As the caller you can disable it if you don't like the feature.
- robotresearcher 10y ago
  I screen lots of calls via the ansaphone on my landline. It's a feature I would miss if I went mobile-phone-only. I like the idea for video calls too.