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> Not true at all. I have a bunch of recurring meetings in my calendar, and each one has a Zoom link in it. If I wanted to switch to Meet, I'd have to redo each

> Not true at all. I have a bunch of recurring meetings in my calendar, and each one has a Zoom link in it. If I wanted to switch to Meet, I'd have to redo each of those invites with a new link, and then hope everyone noticed the update. If you use Google Calendar, I believe a Meet link is automatically added by default. > They won't, so I'll spend the first few weeks individually pinging people reminding them of the new conference software, and then waiting 10 minutes for them to download, install, and configure it before joining us. That doesn't make sense. Meet is done exclusively through the web browser. > And then if I decide to switch back, I get to do it all over again. What stops you from having both so you can try both? Those Zoom links aren't obsolete the moment you add a Meet link.

La1n 6y ago
>Those Zoom links aren't obsolete the moment you add a Meet link. You should edit them out though, otherwise you are going to have people click the link they always used to click.
jedberg 6y ago
> If you use Google Calendar, I believe a Meet link is automatically added by default. For a new event, yes. For an existing event, I'd have to replace the existing Zoom link. > That doesn't make sense. Meet is done exclusively through the web browser. You're assuming the person I want to meet with already has a Google account. > What stops you from having both so you can try both? Those Zoom links aren't obsolete the moment you add a Meet link. Because of the confusion I mentioned before. You'll end up with some people in the old meeting and some in the new. I speak all of this from experience of being in a corporate environment that moved from WebEx to Hangouts. It took weeks to get everyone to switch over and was a ton of work updating all the recurring meetings. But the overall point is that the switching cost is much higher than just the time boxed meeting.
- eitally 6y ago
  You don't need a Google account to join a Meet meeting. https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069?co=GENIE.Plat... Re: your corporate switching experience ... this is a failure of the company culture, not a technology problem.
lnanek2 6y ago
> That doesn't make sense. Meet is done exclusively through the web browser. That's not actually an indication that there won't be setup issues. Every new machine my Meet breaks until I hit a bunch of OK boxes and know the secret trick to kill Chrome and restart it before Meet can actually successfully access the camera and share screens and the like. Had it screw up presentations before where I got a new machine, tried to share a demo window, and of course it wouldn't work until I logged off the call, killed Chrome, and got back in. Big waste of time. Seen the same issue hit other coworkers with new issued laptops.

La1n 6y ago

>Those Zoom links aren't obsolete the moment you add a Meet link. You should edit them out though, otherwise you are going to have people click the link they always used to click.

jedberg 6y ago

> If you use Google Calendar, I believe a Meet link is automatically added by default. For a new event, yes. For an existing event, I'd have to replace the existing Zoom link. > That doesn't make sense. Meet is done exclusively through the web browser. You're assuming the person I want to meet with already has a Google account. > What stops you from having both so you can try both? Those Zoom links aren't obsolete the moment you add a Meet link. Because of the confusion I mentioned before. You'll end up with some people in the old meeting and some in the new. I speak all of this from experience of being in a corporate environment that moved from WebEx to Hangouts. It took weeks to get everyone to switch over and was a ton of work updating all the recurring meetings. But the overall point is that the switching cost is much higher than just the time boxed meeting.

eitally 6y ago
You don't need a Google account to join a Meet meeting. https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069?co=GENIE.Plat... Re: your corporate switching experience ... this is a failure of the company culture, not a technology problem.

lnanek2 6y ago

> That doesn't make sense. Meet is done exclusively through the web browser. That's not actually an indication that there won't be setup issues. Every new machine my Meet breaks until I hit a bunch of OK boxes and know the secret trick to kill Chrome and restart it before Meet can actually successfully access the camera and share screens and the like. Had it screw up presentations before where I got a new machine, tried to share a demo window, and of course it wouldn't work until I logged off the call, killed Chrome, and got back in. Big waste of time. Seen the same issue hit other coworkers with new issued laptops.