Re:A Profile of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan
by govg on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:31AM
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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.
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> 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?