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I used Google Meet once, and immediately ended up back at Zoom. I was not particularly impressed.

by CubsFan1060 6y ago

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exclusiv 6y ago
It's gotten better but the video quality is definitely lacking.
- Aachen 6y ago
  Can't say I notice a difference, most platforms just take your webcam data and forward it so I don't get why people report different qualities? Never had to use zoom luckily but between Wire, Jitsi, Hangouts, BigBlueButton, and two others whose names I don't remember right now, it always depended on people's mics, cams, and WiFis (and sometimes available CPU if my crappy work laptop had too much to do in the background to en/decrypt the streams).
  - exclusiv 6y ago
    A lot of factors but Zoom is superior to Meet in video quality from my experience. Meet looks grainy. Zoom has various native clients.
    - Aachen 6y ago
      > Zoom has various native clients. Yeah that's precisely what I'm afraid of given their track record.
kevindong 6y ago
I found it to be perfectly adequate. Just like Zoom. Neither stood out and I'm perfectly fine with that. Some of my fellow employees asked for a company wide Zoom license at the beginning of WFH so out of curiosity I looked to see how much Zoom costs. Turns out it costs about the same as all of G Suite which honestly surprised me (in how expensive Zoom is). https://zoom.us/pricing https://zoom.us/pricing https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html
ThePowerOfFuet 6y ago
The fact that one of those requires only a modern browser, and doesn't hide the browser access behind a dark pattern in favour of a software download which is a security dumpster fire, causes me to not worry quite so much about ultra-crisp video.
isatty 6y ago
The in browser version of zoom is really quite bad and meet is miles ahead of it. That and I’m not installing a proprietary, possibly spyware ridden (excluding spying at the server) that installs weird daemons on my computer. For family use, I’ve found FaceTime to have the best AV if everyone has a decent connection.

I used Google Meet once, and immediately ended up back at Zoom. I was not particularly impressed.

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exclusiv 6y ago

It's gotten better but the video quality is definitely lacking.

Aachen 6y ago
Can't say I notice a difference, most platforms just take your webcam data and forward it so I don't get why people report different qualities? Never had to use zoom luckily but between Wire, Jitsi, Hangouts, BigBlueButton, and two others whose names I don't remember right now, it always depended on people's mics, cams, and WiFis (and sometimes available CPU if my crappy work laptop had too much to do in the background to en/decrypt the streams).
- exclusiv 6y ago
  A lot of factors but Zoom is superior to Meet in video quality from my experience. Meet looks grainy. Zoom has various native clients.
  - Aachen 6y ago
    > Zoom has various native clients. Yeah that's precisely what I'm afraid of given their track record.

kevindong 6y ago

I found it to be perfectly adequate. Just like Zoom. Neither stood out and I'm perfectly fine with that. Some of my fellow employees asked for a company wide Zoom license at the beginning of WFH so out of curiosity I looked to see how much Zoom costs. Turns out it costs about the same as all of G Suite which honestly surprised me (in how expensive Zoom is). https://zoom.us/pricing https://zoom.us/pricing https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html

ThePowerOfFuet 6y ago

The fact that one of those requires only a modern browser, and doesn't hide the browser access behind a dark pattern in favour of a software download which is a security dumpster fire, causes me to not worry quite so much about ultra-crisp video.

isatty 6y ago

The in browser version of zoom is really quite bad and meet is miles ahead of it. That and I’m not installing a proprietary, possibly spyware ridden (excluding spying at the server) that installs weird daemons on my computer. For family use, I’ve found FaceTime to have the best AV if everyone has a decent connection.