Re:A Profile of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan
by ilikehurdles on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:31AM
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Google has lost all goodwill in this space in my opinion. They’ve built, sunsetted, and rebuilt multiple solutions for video conferencing and at this point who can trust them with putting out a long-term product?
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Can you explain which ones? The only product I know of is Hangouts and Google is right now rolling out updated Hangouts which is a compatible upgrade?
(Having said that, Hangouts is far from perfect.)
Re:A Profile of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan
by realusername on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:26AM
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Hangout, Allo, Duo, Google Voice, Gtalk, Meet, Wave... (list to be completed, there's probably a dozen more which died I don't remember).
Of this list, only Hangouts is a video conferencing application, is it not? Allo's primary goal was chat, Duo's is 1-1 interaction, GTalk is simply the older version of hangouts, and so on.
> only Hangouts is a video conferencing application
btw, there are three different versions of Hangouts: Classic, Meet, and Chat. Hangouts Classic will be EOL'd later this year. Hangouts Meet is the video conferencing for business. Hangouts Chat is a Slack clone for business that includes video calling.
Google will transition Hangouts Classic users to Hangouts Chat, not Meet:
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/01/upcoming-hangou...
Google Talk and Google Voice are two other Google products that (used to?) support video calling.
The fact that this is so confusing is part of the problem - consistency of product vision is not their forte and there are market economic consequences as a result.
Or they could have built a single application which does both chat/audio/video.
Which was/is Hangouts?
I dont know, its so confusing with so many options from Google.
What do you think Meets is for?
Hangouts Meet, as it's full name suggests, is a compatible upgrade.
And it's a bit of a wierd criticism since Hangouts actually predates Zoom and most of solutions suggested in this thread.