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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by zekevermillion on Friday November 30, 2018 @04:45PM (#18572960)
Google Talk was better. I used that for business purposes, but once they migrated everyone to hangouts the quality -- latency, sound, etc, dropped a lot, at least as experienced by me.

I have to agree with you it must be internal politics. Otherwise why would they keep inflincting harm on themselves? But maybe they have some data that suggests this is a good idea...

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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by int_19h on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:28PM (#18574098)
For starters, Google Talk had an actual client app (and then of course you could just use any XMPP client). Hangouts is a Chrome web app, which in practice means that it doesn't really behave like a proper app at all - e.g. on Windows, if you pin it to the taskbar, then close the window, and click on the taskbar icon, it'll open Chrome extensions page, not the app itself.
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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by StavrosK on Friday November 30, 2018 @08:01PM (#18574259)
I still use the XMPP client, though, it never stopped working.
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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by danellis on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:33PM (#18573767)
Really? I get excellent quality from Hangouts. HD video with enough clarity to make out individual hairs on a cat.
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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by pathseeker on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:36PM (#18573801)
Yeah, I get lagging and voice/video sync issues. Trying having a conversation with a person instead of a cat to experience it. :)
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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by eigenvector on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:02PM (#18573960)
I find Hangouts handles low bandwidth and/or high latency a lot worse than FaceTime.
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