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Google Talk was better. I used that for business purposes, but once they migrated everyone to hangouts the quality -- latency, sound, etc, dropped a lot, at le
by zekevermillion 8y ago
Google Talk was better. I used that for business purposes, but once they migrated everyone to hangouts the quality -- latency, sound, etc, dropped a lot, at least as experienced by me.
I have to agree with you it must be internal politics. Otherwise why would they keep inflincting harm on themselves? But maybe they have some data that suggests this is a good idea...
- danellis 8y agoReally? I get excellent quality from Hangouts. HD video with enough clarity to make out individual hairs on a cat.
- pathseeker 8y agoYeah, I get lagging and voice/video sync issues. Trying having a conversation with a person instead of a cat to experience it. :)
- eigenvector 8y agoI find Hangouts handles low bandwidth and/or high latency a lot worse than FaceTime.
- int_19h 8y agoFor starters, Google Talk had an actual client app (and then of course you could just use any XMPP client). Hangouts is a Chrome web app, which in practice means that it doesn't really behave like a proper app at all - e.g. on Windows, if you pin it to the taskbar, then close the window, and click on the taskbar icon, it'll open Chrome extensions page, not the app itself.
- StavrosK 8y agoI still use the XMPP client, though, it never stopped working.