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I don't know a single person (personal or business) that uses Google Meet. I'm in the UK though - it it popular in the US or elsewhere?

caturopath 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Meet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Meet claims (with citations) > During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the use of Meet grew by a factor of 30 between January and April 2020, with 100 million users a day accessing Meet, compared to 200 million daily uses for Zoom as of the last week of April 2020.
- simonswords82 5y ago
  That's nuts - 100 million users and I don't see a single one. Crazy how enormous ecosystems can grow and still be outside of one's radar.
  - cromka 5y ago
    What other product people in the UK use, then?
    - simonswords82 5y ago
      For business it's a pretty even split between Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Some still uses Skype for Business - which as you can imagine is a pretty awful experience. Note that we work with global financial services organisations with fairly strict infosec policies and antiquated architectures. For personal video calls it's Zoom, WhatsApp video or Facetime.
      - cromka 5y ago
        Having worked until recently for a European bank, they were still using Skype for Business, and I agreed it was a horrific experience. Naturally they now migrate to Microsoft Teams. I agree with others in this thread, however, that Meet is quite popular in US otherwise. I guess it's because pretty much everyone here has a GMail account, and it's super easy to get everyone join the meeting without any hassle.
  - matwood 5y ago
    We were a small tech company before being acquired and used Meet (and GSuite). It worked fine, but what I liked the most is that it's built around the browser with nothing to install. Click link, in a meeting. Now we use Zoom a bit more, but I have yet to ever use MS Teams.
- hocuspocus 5y ago
  Can this sudden growth be mostly attributed to opening up Google Classroom? Over here I've seen schools going from zero online infrastructure to using Google Classroom in a week. Teachers and students started using Meet since there was nothing in place before. I can't really imagine millions of businesses suddenly jumping onto G Suite. They just scaled up their existing collaborating tools, and Office 365 with Teams is absolutely killing it among SMBs.
Causality1 5y ago
It tends to not get blocked in places where other video chat like Skype and WhatsApp Video are blocked by the government, such as the UAE.
larntz 5y ago
My children's school district uses meet and google classroom. I think it's pretty common in schools in the US.
- tssva 5y ago
  It is very common. My child's school district used Google Meet for remote learning during the last school year. They also give all students a Chromebook.
blntechie 5y ago
Google Workspace is the default option for most small tech companies in India.
remus 5y ago
I imagine a lot of businesses who use google workspace use it as it's bundled (why pay for zoom, teams etc. on top).
barrkel 5y ago
It replaced LifeSize for town halls at my old company (London, fintech) during lockdown. We used LifeSize in part because of the various integrations and dedicated hardware.
icebraining 5y ago
Meet has been the most popular tool in the companies I've worked for (in the Benelux and Portugal), followed by Webex. Never met anyone using Teams. That said, I've mostly worked for small-to-medium companies.
yalooze 5y ago
The last 2 companies I've worked at in the UK have used G Suite / Workspace and therefore Meet. It integrates well and runs well in the browser. No complaints here.
- viraptor 5y ago
  > ... and runs well in the browser. On Chrome on Windows. Otherwise it turns on the jet engine mode on laptop cooling / energy consumption.
  - kevincox 5y ago
    It used to be pretty bad on Firefox Linux but for the pass couple of months it runs well.
  - cesarb 5y ago
    I use Google Meet on Firefox on Linux, and haven't noticed any excessive power use; and the laptop fan stays slow. In fact, of the video conference systems I have used at work, Google Meet is the only one that works perfectly on Firefox, without having to use Chromium or even a dedicated flatpak package.
beowulfey 5y ago
I know many public schools used it for classes as many schools already had G Suite. My friend taught his class on it (the latency and audio dropouts were terrible, FWIW, but much of that may have been the poor internet of the kids).
scaryclam 5y ago
The company I work for is in the UK and uses Meet. My last one did as well.
mrweasel 5y ago
We use it daily. Teams is still the most popular by far among our costumers here in Denmark, but I see Meet much more often than Zoom. It is one of Googles better products, but for all we know Google Meet and Teams could be the same product with a different skin. They work very similar, have mostly the same features and work much the same.
smoe 5y ago
It is very popular with smaller companies that already pay for gsuite where I am in Colombia. It is well integrated out of the box with the tools you are already using. In our case we use Meet for around 95% of day to day calls. Zoom for more conference style calls. We have a diverse mix of operating systems, and it least in my experience Meet is the one that works best in browsers by far. Especially since you don't have to jump trough hoops actually using the browser version.
driverdan 5y ago
I used to use Meet for most calls. I found there were more technical and quality issues than Zoom or, for quick internal calls, Slack. On almost every two person Meet call one of us would have some kind of technical issue. Not working with the correct mic, video not working until the browser was restarted, etc.

caturopath 5y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Meet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Meet claims (with citations) > During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the use of Meet grew by a factor of 30 between January and April 2020, with 100 million users a day accessing Meet, compared to 200 million daily uses for Zoom as of the last week of April 2020.

simonswords82 5y ago
That's nuts - 100 million users and I don't see a single one. Crazy how enormous ecosystems can grow and still be outside of one's radar.
- cromka 5y ago
  What other product people in the UK use, then?
  - simonswords82 5y ago
    For business it's a pretty even split between Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Some still uses Skype for Business - which as you can imagine is a pretty awful experience. Note that we work with global financial services organisations with fairly strict infosec policies and antiquated architectures. For personal video calls it's Zoom, WhatsApp video or Facetime.
    - cromka 5y ago
      Having worked until recently for a European bank, they were still using Skype for Business, and I agreed it was a horrific experience. Naturally they now migrate to Microsoft Teams. I agree with others in this thread, however, that Meet is quite popular in US otherwise. I guess it's because pretty much everyone here has a GMail account, and it's super easy to get everyone join the meeting without any hassle.
- matwood 5y ago
  We were a small tech company before being acquired and used Meet (and GSuite). It worked fine, but what I liked the most is that it's built around the browser with nothing to install. Click link, in a meeting. Now we use Zoom a bit more, but I have yet to ever use MS Teams.
hocuspocus 5y ago
Can this sudden growth be mostly attributed to opening up Google Classroom? Over here I've seen schools going from zero online infrastructure to using Google Classroom in a week. Teachers and students started using Meet since there was nothing in place before. I can't really imagine millions of businesses suddenly jumping onto G Suite. They just scaled up their existing collaborating tools, and Office 365 with Teams is absolutely killing it among SMBs.

Causality1 5y ago

It tends to not get blocked in places where other video chat like Skype and WhatsApp Video are blocked by the government, such as the UAE.

larntz 5y ago

My children's school district uses meet and google classroom. I think it's pretty common in schools in the US.

tssva 5y ago
It is very common. My child's school district used Google Meet for remote learning during the last school year. They also give all students a Chromebook.

blntechie 5y ago

Google Workspace is the default option for most small tech companies in India.

remus 5y ago

I imagine a lot of businesses who use google workspace use it as it's bundled (why pay for zoom, teams etc. on top).

barrkel 5y ago

It replaced LifeSize for town halls at my old company (London, fintech) during lockdown. We used LifeSize in part because of the various integrations and dedicated hardware.

icebraining 5y ago

Meet has been the most popular tool in the companies I've worked for (in the Benelux and Portugal), followed by Webex. Never met anyone using Teams. That said, I've mostly worked for small-to-medium companies.

yalooze 5y ago

The last 2 companies I've worked at in the UK have used G Suite / Workspace and therefore Meet. It integrates well and runs well in the browser. No complaints here.

viraptor 5y ago
> ... and runs well in the browser. On Chrome on Windows. Otherwise it turns on the jet engine mode on laptop cooling / energy consumption.
- kevincox 5y ago
  It used to be pretty bad on Firefox Linux but for the pass couple of months it runs well.
- cesarb 5y ago
  I use Google Meet on Firefox on Linux, and haven't noticed any excessive power use; and the laptop fan stays slow. In fact, of the video conference systems I have used at work, Google Meet is the only one that works perfectly on Firefox, without having to use Chromium or even a dedicated flatpak package.

beowulfey 5y ago

I know many public schools used it for classes as many schools already had G Suite. My friend taught his class on it (the latency and audio dropouts were terrible, FWIW, but much of that may have been the poor internet of the kids).

scaryclam 5y ago

The company I work for is in the UK and uses Meet. My last one did as well.

mrweasel 5y ago

We use it daily. Teams is still the most popular by far among our costumers here in Denmark, but I see Meet much more often than Zoom. It is one of Googles better products, but for all we know Google Meet and Teams could be the same product with a different skin. They work very similar, have mostly the same features and work much the same.

smoe 5y ago

It is very popular with smaller companies that already pay for gsuite where I am in Colombia. It is well integrated out of the box with the tools you are already using. In our case we use Meet for around 95% of day to day calls. Zoom for more conference style calls. We have a diverse mix of operating systems, and it least in my experience Meet is the one that works best in browsers by far. Especially since you don't have to jump trough hoops actually using the browser version.

driverdan 5y ago

I used to use Meet for most calls. I found there were more technical and quality issues than Zoom or, for quick internal calls, Slack. On almost every two person Meet call one of us would have some kind of technical issue. Not working with the correct mic, video not working until the browser was restarted, etc.