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Newest nonsense from google, two Google Meet apps https://www.ghacks.net/2022/08/05/googles-merging-of-video-chat-app-begins-now-there-are-two-google-meet-apps

• davidw 4y ago
  This drives me bonkers. 10 years ago, I could easily place a call to my mom from Gmail. This was easy, and importantly, easy for her to figure out. This endless parade of chat and video things that don't work very well is just nonsense. 'Meet' required an email invitation. So we went from clicking a button in Gmail itself to having to sit there and send an email. This Duo thing doesn't autocomplete email addresses that are in your contacts. And it ALL WORKED FINE 10 years ago! It's not like they're moving in fits and starts towards something that works. They had something that worked, and just utterly wrecked it.
  • Melatonic 4y ago
    We originally had Google Chat which was similar - super simple - super easy to use for existing gmail users. Reliable. Lots of people had it. I swear they rebranded it like 5 times and each time had new interfaces, apps, features, dropped features, etc etc. And where did we end up now? Google Chat :-D
    • davidw 4y ago
      Yeah - I could send both 'chat' messages as well as SMS' right from inside Gmail. Now there's some Messages web app that is kind of lame.
  • UncleMeat 4y ago
    If it makes you feel any better (it probably won't), it drives the internal people bonkers too. Five years ago Google's shitty product strategy was a fun weird thing that we could laugh at. Now we can only cry.