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I think you're confusing Hangouts with Meet? Meet isn't going away as far as I know.

Rebelgecko 8y ago
Isn't "Hangouts Meet"[1] just the enterprise-y version of Hangouts? That's what it looks like on the comparison page[2], minus some Hangouts features that are missing in Hangouts Meet (no text chat, fewer supported browsers) [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.meetings https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... [2]: https://gsuite.google.com/learning-center/products/meet/switch-from-classic-hangouts/#!/ https://gsuite.google.com/learning-center/products/meet/swit...
SwellJoe 8y ago
I don't know what Meet is. When I add an event in Google Calender, there is an "Add Conferencing" dropdown...in it is "Hangouts". That adds a conference link to the event, which I can then share with whoever I want to meet with. When it comes time to meet, I open the email reminder, or look in my calendar, and click the link. Everybody shows up...we meet. That's Hangouts, as far as I know. It opens in the Hangouts group video UI. I receive these invites from others pretty regularly, so I don't think it's anything mysterious? But, as far as I know I've never received a Meet invite. Google is very bad at branding and marketing is what I think we can learn from this.
- gomox 8y ago
  That thing you are describing used to be Hangouts, but is now Meet.
  - SwellJoe 8y ago
    Nobody told me. Or Google, apparently. https://photos.app.goo.gl/E9qk9KJC73VoEj5y6 https://photos.app.goo.gl/E9qk9KJC73VoEj5y6
    - gomox 8y ago
      When you go to the actual conference in the calendar event, do you still see a Hangouts URL and UI? Maybe we are on different sides of an A/B test.
      - SwellJoe 8y ago
        Literally everything I see has Hangouts branding. And, not just for me or my events...I was invited to a meeting with someone from another company yesterday, and everything about it was branded with "Hangouts" and not "Meet", too. Also, the Google Meet website is laughably useless. It has literally no content, not even a description of what it is.
        dragonwriter 8y ago
        > Also, the Google Meet website is laughably useless. It has literally no content, not even a description of what it is. “Video meetings for your business. Connect with your team from anywhere. With easy-to-join video calls, you can meet face to face without the added cost of travel.” https://gsuite.google.com/products/meet/ https://gsuite.google.com/products/meet/ EDIT: I just realized there is a separate “Google Meet” page which has no SERP summary and just redirects to the Play Store page for the Hangouts Meet app (at least, on Android.)
        SwellJoe 8y ago
        This is what I see at the first link when I search for "Google Meet" (url is: https://meet.google.com https://meet.google.com, which seems like it's a reasonable point of entry URL for the product): https://photos.app.goo.gl/C6HcFKEhMuFhy2EZ7 https://photos.app.goo.gl/C6HcFKEhMuFhy2EZ7 It's not a good web page. Clicking the "Learn more" link takes me to a help page telling how to join a meeting...but, not much about what Meet is. It can be inferred, but it's also not a good introduction to Meet. I have now figured out what Meet is, but not why I would prefer it over Hangouts. It appears to be the same thing, only "for business" (and with a price tag, but no promise that Google will stop surveilling my every action online...which is really the one feature I'd absolutely be willing to pay for). I'll just reiterate that Google is bad at branding and marketing.
  - wyldfire 8y ago
    Branding / re-branding is clearly not one of Google's strengths. Why change the name? Just change the feature set.
    - dragonwriter 8y ago
      They didn't change the name so much as add disambiguation when they split the product. The broke Hangouts (for business, though this is now apparently coming for consumers too) into two apps, Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet.
      - SwellJoe 8y ago
        Well, yes, that, but also announced that Hangouts would be shut down, which is exceedingly confusing messaging.
  - dragonwriter 8y ago
    It's actually Hangouts Meet, so you are both right. Or both wrong, whatever.

Isn't "Hangouts Meet"[1] just the enterprise-y version of Hangouts? That's what it looks like on the comparison page[2], minus some Hangouts features that are missing in Hangouts Meet (no text chat, fewer supported browsers) [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.meetings https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... [2]: https://gsuite.google.com/learning-center/products/meet/switch-from-classic-hangouts/#!/ https://gsuite.google.com/learning-center/products/meet/swit...

SwellJoe 8y ago

I don't know what Meet is. When I add an event in Google Calender, there is an "Add Conferencing" dropdown...in it is "Hangouts". That adds a conference link to the event, which I can then share with whoever I want to meet with. When it comes time to meet, I open the email reminder, or look in my calendar, and click the link. Everybody shows up...we meet. That's Hangouts, as far as I know. It opens in the Hangouts group video UI. I receive these invites from others pretty regularly, so I don't think it's anything mysterious? But, as far as I know I've never received a Meet invite. Google is very bad at branding and marketing is what I think we can learn from this.

gomox 8y ago
That thing you are describing used to be Hangouts, but is now Meet.
- SwellJoe 8y ago
  Nobody told me. Or Google, apparently. https://photos.app.goo.gl/E9qk9KJC73VoEj5y6 https://photos.app.goo.gl/E9qk9KJC73VoEj5y6
  - gomox 8y ago
    When you go to the actual conference in the calendar event, do you still see a Hangouts URL and UI? Maybe we are on different sides of an A/B test.
    - SwellJoe 8y ago
      Literally everything I see has Hangouts branding. And, not just for me or my events...I was invited to a meeting with someone from another company yesterday, and everything about it was branded with "Hangouts" and not "Meet", too. Also, the Google Meet website is laughably useless. It has literally no content, not even a description of what it is.
      - dragonwriter 8y ago
        > Also, the Google Meet website is laughably useless. It has literally no content, not even a description of what it is. “Video meetings for your business. Connect with your team from anywhere. With easy-to-join video calls, you can meet face to face without the added cost of travel.” https://gsuite.google.com/products/meet/ https://gsuite.google.com/products/meet/ EDIT: I just realized there is a separate “Google Meet” page which has no SERP summary and just redirects to the Play Store page for the Hangouts Meet app (at least, on Android.)
        SwellJoe 8y ago
        This is what I see at the first link when I search for "Google Meet" (url is: https://meet.google.com https://meet.google.com, which seems like it's a reasonable point of entry URL for the product): https://photos.app.goo.gl/C6HcFKEhMuFhy2EZ7 https://photos.app.goo.gl/C6HcFKEhMuFhy2EZ7 It's not a good web page. Clicking the "Learn more" link takes me to a help page telling how to join a meeting...but, not much about what Meet is. It can be inferred, but it's also not a good introduction to Meet. I have now figured out what Meet is, but not why I would prefer it over Hangouts. It appears to be the same thing, only "for business" (and with a price tag, but no promise that Google will stop surveilling my every action online...which is really the one feature I'd absolutely be willing to pay for). I'll just reiterate that Google is bad at branding and marketing.
- wyldfire 8y ago
  Branding / re-branding is clearly not one of Google's strengths. Why change the name? Just change the feature set.
  - dragonwriter 8y ago
    They didn't change the name so much as add disambiguation when they split the product. The broke Hangouts (for business, though this is now apparently coming for consumers too) into two apps, Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet.
    - SwellJoe 8y ago
      Well, yes, that, but also announced that Hangouts would be shut down, which is exceedingly confusing messaging.
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  It's actually Hangouts Meet, so you are both right. Or both wrong, whatever.