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Re:FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web by ThomPete on Monday June 07, 2021 @08:34PM (#27429227)
Google Meet is a pretty solid solution and I have never had a problem with it, been using it for years.
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Re:FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web by gogopuppygogo on Monday June 07, 2021 @10:22PM (#27429946)
Years? https://mobilesyrup.com/2020/04/08/google-meet-rebrand/

Google rebrands or changes entire apps at a whim. I’m shocked they haven’t ruined Google Apps (Workspace) with their changes.

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Re:FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web by xenomachina on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @12:18AM (#27430594)
Yes, it was originally named "Hangouts Meet", and was renamed about a year ago to remove "Hangouts" from the name. It's still the same app, though.
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Re:FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web by JCharante on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:37AM (#27436578)
On the subject of hangouts, I miss Hangouts Dialer which was killed earlier this year. Used it to call international phone numbers.
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Re:FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web by CameronNemo on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @12:45AM (#27430718)
Do you use it in Chrome? I have tried chrome and Firefox but they both make my fans spin for one video stream and four audio streams. Zoom's native app OTOH seems to handle multiple video streams with ease. This is on macOS.
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Re:FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web by vetinari on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:30AM (#27433705)
Google apps use VP9 for video, and Apple didn't expose VP9 decoding acceleration via Video Toolbox up until Big Sur (on models capable doing so, so for Intel chips Kaby Lake and newer). So if you don't run Big Sur on KBL+, it falls back to software.
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