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Good thing Google+ came out. I know too many people who consider Skype's video chat quality a joke.

hugh3 15y ago
Works fine for me. Maybe it's geographic?
Aqwis 15y ago
Google+'s video chat barely works for me at all. Maybe it's because I'm in Europe, but the video chat is basically a big blurry mess. Skype is worlds better.
- hugh3 15y ago
  There's video chat in Google+? I hadn't even noticed.
  - r00fus 15y ago
    Hangouts? It's not like they didn't market that as feature #1 or #2.
    - hugh3 15y ago
      Well, the word "hangout" doesn't really jump out as meaning "video chat" to me.
      - muuh-gnu 15y ago
        You mean, like "Skype" does? Gmail has also been offering a cross-platform "Google Voice & Video Chat" for some time now. Hangout will probably be a rebranded version extended to include video conference support.
pbhjpbhj 15y ago
I'm in UK. I was totally blown away by Skype's video chat on Christmas day when I first used it to chat to parents. Few drop outs but better quality sound than a phone call and video ... "we're living in the future" as they say.
ultry 15y ago
Can you elaborate this? "I know too many people who..." - this is not comment that adds anything new or interesting to discussion, it has 0 value to me or anyone here but if you provide valuable info about problems you see in Skype's technology or quality and how is G+ better, that + your honest opinion would be appreciated.
- pavpanchekha 15y ago
  I have not used Google's hangouts. I'm on Arch Linux, so it'd be some work to do so; I cannot hazard opinions on it, but I was implying that competition is good. My parents use Skype to talk to my grandparents in Russia weekly; I use it at times as well. I'm grateful for the technology. That said, it's not nearly as seemless (for me) as the phone, even beyond issues of finicky hardware (I'm on Linux, I don't expect much there): phone calls drop, frames stutter or disjoin from the audio, sound might warp, and so on. These are all things that sound like software issues (yeah, my pipe is only so big, but one could degrade more gracefully). I'm just hoping competition can improve things a bit, in a way that giving Skype even more of a stranglehold on the market would not.

hugh3 15y ago

Works fine for me. Maybe it's geographic?

Aqwis 15y ago

Google+'s video chat barely works for me at all. Maybe it's because I'm in Europe, but the video chat is basically a big blurry mess. Skype is worlds better.

hugh3 15y ago
There's video chat in Google+? I hadn't even noticed.
- r00fus 15y ago
  Hangouts? It's not like they didn't market that as feature #1 or #2.
  - hugh3 15y ago
    Well, the word "hangout" doesn't really jump out as meaning "video chat" to me.
    - muuh-gnu 15y ago
      You mean, like "Skype" does? Gmail has also been offering a cross-platform "Google Voice & Video Chat" for some time now. Hangout will probably be a rebranded version extended to include video conference support.

pbhjpbhj 15y ago

I'm in UK. I was totally blown away by Skype's video chat on Christmas day when I first used it to chat to parents. Few drop outs but better quality sound than a phone call and video ... "we're living in the future" as they say.

ultry 15y ago

Can you elaborate this? "I know too many people who..." - this is not comment that adds anything new or interesting to discussion, it has 0 value to me or anyone here but if you provide valuable info about problems you see in Skype's technology or quality and how is G+ better, that + your honest opinion would be appreciated.

pavpanchekha 15y ago
I have not used Google's hangouts. I'm on Arch Linux, so it'd be some work to do so; I cannot hazard opinions on it, but I was implying that competition is good. My parents use Skype to talk to my grandparents in Russia weekly; I use it at times as well. I'm grateful for the technology. That said, it's not nearly as seemless (for me) as the phone, even beyond issues of finicky hardware (I'm on Linux, I don't expect much there): phone calls drop, frames stutter or disjoin from the audio, sound might warp, and so on. These are all things that sound like software issues (yeah, my pipe is only so big, but one could degrade more gracefully). I'm just hoping competition can improve things a bit, in a way that giving Skype even more of a stranglehold on the market would not.