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Do you mean Google Meet, or Google Meet (Original), which are two seperate apps? Or were you you referring to Duo, which is also called Google Meet now. Or Han

Do you mean Google Meet, or Google Meet (Original), which are two seperate apps? Or were you you referring to Duo, which is also called Google Meet now. Or Hangouts, the other Google video chat app which also exists for some reason? Or Google Hangouts Meet, which also existed? Or Google Allo? It's better than Google Meet because Zoom won't shut itself down in 6 months, replace Zoom with a different app with a different name, change the name, change the name again, then shut that down and repeat the cycle 6 months later.

iainmerrick 4y ago
Most people don’t actually care about or even notice that confusion. You go to meet.google.com and it works without too much hassle.
- cerved 4y ago
  not on Firefox
- lultimouomo 4y ago
  This is the one redeeming quality of Meet, and it's worth a lot. I can click on a link that was sent to me and all the essential videoconferencing stuff will just work in my browser. Also in Firefox, regardless of what sibling says (I use it regularly on Linux and macOS). This is a technical feat that somehiw still escapes most of the other videoconferencing platforms (except maybe Zoom, but then they try to hide it as much as possible).
  - geysersam 4y ago
    My impression is that zoom has more features. Breakout rooms, predefined set of meeting hosts etc. But having to install the app on the computer is a pain. "I'm going to join this Zoom meeting starting now." "Nope, you have to update the app first." Is not fun.
    - kevincox 4y ago
      Meet has had breakout rooms for a year or two. Predefined hosts is a place that is lacking. In general Meet started as a "everyone is mostly trusted" tool which is way better for office meetings so their host controls are behind (but slowly being added). Zoom is by default "only the host is trusted" which is very annoying in my day-to-day use. (For example you can't have a weekly meeting because the "organizer" is on vacation and can't start it. You can't screenshare because the host needs to approve, you can't join before the host... Most of these can be changed by default in your settings but I'd course most people in my company haven't done this so we run into problems at least weekly and need to scramble to send around a new link and hope that we manage to get everyone into the same call. But that being said I think Zoom is still the better option for "untrusted" setups like seminars, presentations or other complex or large events. Meet is far better UX for meetings.
  - smallerfish 4y ago
    > This is the one redeeming quality of Meet What do you have against Meet? It's a better solution than Zoom. It doesn't have built in whiteboarding, granted, but for that you can use an online whiteboarding tool.
    - surajrmal 4y ago
      Google meet has jamboard integration for whiteboarding.
- rvba 4y ago
  > Most people don’t actually care about or even notice that confusion. You are very, very wrong: 1) Old people get very confused even when the interface changes. 2) The changes are irritating even if you know Google products 3) Change for the sake of change (someone at Google wants to get promoted) is just a waste of time, especially as the products are half baked. Maybe you are very young and your time is worthless, but most people want products that just work, with a non confusing interface. Change for the sake of change is something that busy-bodies do to prove that they are useful 4) Google has killed its own products multiple times, so at some point the stuff just stops working. Why bother using a product that will not work? Seriously, it has been few years that everyone knows that Google does its business wrong: those on top should be removed, since it is a lot of money lost. In both of marketshare lost and lots of programmers reinventing the wheel multiple times to offer a half baked product. Every few days I see people who cannot use Microsoft TEAMS (which has a poor interface) and I can easily see that if they used Google products, those constant unnecessary changes would make their lives miserable and make them less productive. Maybe reason why Google products are a joke in corporate environment. I dont really use Zoom, used it mostly to see how it works - and from technology perspective it can be full of holes, but from UI perspective it is much better than the competition. Also probably wont be shut down in 3 months like Google Meet Duo Allo v5.
  - throwawaypcking 4y ago
    > Old people get very confused even when the interface changes. That's a very ageist and ignorant comment. There are plenty of Tik Tok videos of young people getting confused over very simple things as well. Sometimes age can be related but being "old" isn't a sentence to being confused by UI/UX changes.

iainmerrick 4y ago

Most people don’t actually care about or even notice that confusion. You go to meet.google.com and it works without too much hassle.

cerved 4y ago
not on Firefox
lultimouomo 4y ago
This is the one redeeming quality of Meet, and it's worth a lot. I can click on a link that was sent to me and all the essential videoconferencing stuff will just work in my browser. Also in Firefox, regardless of what sibling says (I use it regularly on Linux and macOS). This is a technical feat that somehiw still escapes most of the other videoconferencing platforms (except maybe Zoom, but then they try to hide it as much as possible).
- geysersam 4y ago
  My impression is that zoom has more features. Breakout rooms, predefined set of meeting hosts etc. But having to install the app on the computer is a pain. "I'm going to join this Zoom meeting starting now." "Nope, you have to update the app first." Is not fun.
  - kevincox 4y ago
    Meet has had breakout rooms for a year or two. Predefined hosts is a place that is lacking. In general Meet started as a "everyone is mostly trusted" tool which is way better for office meetings so their host controls are behind (but slowly being added). Zoom is by default "only the host is trusted" which is very annoying in my day-to-day use. (For example you can't have a weekly meeting because the "organizer" is on vacation and can't start it. You can't screenshare because the host needs to approve, you can't join before the host... Most of these can be changed by default in your settings but I'd course most people in my company haven't done this so we run into problems at least weekly and need to scramble to send around a new link and hope that we manage to get everyone into the same call. But that being said I think Zoom is still the better option for "untrusted" setups like seminars, presentations or other complex or large events. Meet is far better UX for meetings.
- smallerfish 4y ago
  > This is the one redeeming quality of Meet What do you have against Meet? It's a better solution than Zoom. It doesn't have built in whiteboarding, granted, but for that you can use an online whiteboarding tool.
  - surajrmal 4y ago
    Google meet has jamboard integration for whiteboarding.
rvba 4y ago
> Most people don’t actually care about or even notice that confusion. You are very, very wrong: 1) Old people get very confused even when the interface changes. 2) The changes are irritating even if you know Google products 3) Change for the sake of change (someone at Google wants to get promoted) is just a waste of time, especially as the products are half baked. Maybe you are very young and your time is worthless, but most people want products that just work, with a non confusing interface. Change for the sake of change is something that busy-bodies do to prove that they are useful 4) Google has killed its own products multiple times, so at some point the stuff just stops working. Why bother using a product that will not work? Seriously, it has been few years that everyone knows that Google does its business wrong: those on top should be removed, since it is a lot of money lost. In both of marketshare lost and lots of programmers reinventing the wheel multiple times to offer a half baked product. Every few days I see people who cannot use Microsoft TEAMS (which has a poor interface) and I can easily see that if they used Google products, those constant unnecessary changes would make their lives miserable and make them less productive. Maybe reason why Google products are a joke in corporate environment. I dont really use Zoom, used it mostly to see how it works - and from technology perspective it can be full of holes, but from UI perspective it is much better than the competition. Also probably wont be shut down in 3 months like Google Meet Duo Allo v5.
- throwawaypcking 4y ago
  > Old people get very confused even when the interface changes. That's a very ageist and ignorant comment. There are plenty of Tik Tok videos of young people getting confused over very simple things as well. Sometimes age can be related but being "old" isn't a sentence to being confused by UI/UX changes.