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Google has lost all goodwill in this space in my opinion. They’ve built, sunsetted, and rebuilt multiple solutions for video conferencing and at this point who

Google has lost all goodwill in this space in my opinion. They’ve built, sunsetted, and rebuilt multiple solutions for video conferencing and at this point who can trust them with putting out a long-term product?

ariwilson 8y ago
What solutions are you referring to?
izacus 8y ago
Can you explain which ones? The only product I know of is Hangouts and Google is right now rolling out updated Hangouts which is a compatible upgrade? (Having said that, Hangouts is far from perfect.)
- realusername 8y ago
  Hangout, Allo, Duo, Google Voice, Gtalk, Meet, Wave... (list to be completed, there's probably a dozen more which died I don't remember).
  - govg 8y ago
    Of this list, only Hangouts is a video conferencing application, is it not? Allo's primary goal was chat, Duo's is 1-1 interaction, GTalk is simply the older version of hangouts, and so on.
    - ulfw 8y ago
      What do you think Meets is for?
      - izacus 8y ago
        Hangouts Meet, as it's full name suggests, is a compatible upgrade. And it's a bit of a wierd criticism since Hangouts actually predates Zoom and most of solutions suggested in this thread.
    - sumedh 8y ago
      Or they could have built a single application which does both chat/audio/video.
      - Spivak 8y ago
        Which was/is Hangouts?
        sumedh 8y ago
        I dont know, its so confusing with so many options from Google.
    - mbesto 8y ago
      The fact that this is so confusing is part of the problem - consistency of product vision is not their forte and there are market economic consequences as a result.
    - cpeterso 8y ago
      > only Hangouts is a video conferencing application btw, there are three different versions of Hangouts: Classic, Meet, and Chat. Hangouts Classic will be EOL'd later this year. Hangouts Meet is the video conferencing for business. Hangouts Chat is a Slack clone for business that includes video calling. Google will transition Hangouts Classic users to Hangouts Chat, not Meet: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/01/upcoming-hangouts-service-consolidation.html https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/01/upcoming-hangou... Google Talk and Google Voice are two other Google products that (used to?) support video calling.

ariwilson 8y ago

What solutions are you referring to?

izacus 8y ago

Can you explain which ones? The only product I know of is Hangouts and Google is right now rolling out updated Hangouts which is a compatible upgrade? (Having said that, Hangouts is far from perfect.)

realusername 8y ago
Hangout, Allo, Duo, Google Voice, Gtalk, Meet, Wave... (list to be completed, there's probably a dozen more which died I don't remember).
- govg 8y ago
  Of this list, only Hangouts is a video conferencing application, is it not? Allo's primary goal was chat, Duo's is 1-1 interaction, GTalk is simply the older version of hangouts, and so on.
  - ulfw 8y ago
    What do you think Meets is for?
    - izacus 8y ago
      Hangouts Meet, as it's full name suggests, is a compatible upgrade. And it's a bit of a wierd criticism since Hangouts actually predates Zoom and most of solutions suggested in this thread.
  - sumedh 8y ago
    Or they could have built a single application which does both chat/audio/video.
    - Spivak 8y ago
      Which was/is Hangouts?
      - sumedh 8y ago
        I dont know, its so confusing with so many options from Google.
  - mbesto 8y ago
    The fact that this is so confusing is part of the problem - consistency of product vision is not their forte and there are market economic consequences as a result.
  - cpeterso 8y ago
    > only Hangouts is a video conferencing application btw, there are three different versions of Hangouts: Classic, Meet, and Chat. Hangouts Classic will be EOL'd later this year. Hangouts Meet is the video conferencing for business. Hangouts Chat is a Slack clone for business that includes video calling. Google will transition Hangouts Classic users to Hangouts Chat, not Meet: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/01/upcoming-hangouts-service-consolidation.html https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/01/upcoming-hangou... Google Talk and Google Voice are two other Google products that (used to?) support video calling.