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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by stingraycharles on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:41PM (#25270318)
Honest question: what is Google chat? I only know Hangouts, I did not know they had a Slack/Teams app as well? Or is this the very old app that was integrated into Gmail back in the day?
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by colinmhayes on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:52PM (#25270466)
Yea, google has a competitor called chat. As other comments have said it doesn't really stack up with teams/slack, but the video system is pretty good. It works well enough, an has seen consistent improvements over the year. Doubt any company would specifically choose google chat, but I know that many that already have deals for g-suite are using it. The thing is pretty much every company has a contract for office or google chat these days. Hard to imagine paying for slack when you've already got these free apps available.
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by dleslie on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @09:51PM (#25272749)
The video is good? Is that a joke?!

I have weekly Beaver meetings with my daughter using google chat and _every time_ nearly all the feeds are frozen.

Whereas my wife uses Zoom all day to talk to patients, with nary a hitch.

Google chat video is the worst I've ever used.

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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by colinmhayes on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:15PM (#25272862)
I've been on google meets all day since march and have never froze. Plenty of huge conference calls, screen sharing. Works great for me. Missing some features of zoom, but the video/audio quality is just as good in my experience.
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by egor2820 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:49AM (#25287656)
My experience having US<->Europe<->India comms and 10 guys everyday - video always starts to glitch and then goes to a complete freeze irrelevant whose country the video from. 1 times in 10 someone's audio gets lost completely.
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by benhurmarcel on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @05:40PM (#25271021)
https://chat.google.com

It's a team chat, included into Google Workspace (G Suite). It's not terrible, and not great. It runs in the browser and integrates with Gmail; is really slow; has 1-to-1 messages, groups, and rooms; rooms have threads to organize conversations, but you can't see a list, you just end up scrolling a lot.

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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by cbozeman on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @06:24PM (#25271417)
They have an app that's absolute garbage compared to Slack - or even Discord, which is just embarrassing for a company like Google, frankly.

I'm sure it'll die off soon, like everything that Google attempts that doesn't have a stellar launch and rapid growth rate.

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