Re:Ask HN: Why is Google Meet so much worse than Zoom?
by sdwolfz on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:05PM
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Incentives!
- Zoom is a company that sells it's conferencing software directly, and it's the core of what they do and sell, if it's bad people don't buy it and they go bankrupt.
- Google does whatever they want since most of their money comes from ads. You don't buy Meet from them directly, it's just a small unit in a sea of thousands other things they do. If it's bad and people don't use it, or they get bored of it, they'll just throw it in the graveyard[0] and carry on...
Basically it does not matter how much talent and manpower you have, all that matters is the business model.
- Zoom is a company that sells it's conferencing software directly, and it's the core of what they do and sell, if it's bad people don't buy it and they go bankrupt.
- Google does whatever they want since most of their money comes from ads. You don't buy Meet from them directly, it's just a small unit in a sea of thousands other things they do. If it's bad and people don't use it, or they get bored of it, they'll just throw it in the graveyard[0] and carry on...
Basically it does not matter how much talent and manpower you have, all that matters is the business model.
[0]https://killedbygoogle.com/