For a relatively low cost you can already get an account from Zoom, WebEx, or the like for a low price.

Microsoft even offers options through Skype (although it's limited to 100 people and the calls are limited to 4 hours), and Teams Personal accounts also allow free calls with similar limits.

Since these various services seem to be doing fine, it's hard to say there's a problem with competition in this space right now.

Skype is all good and fun, until you just want to exit the application.

For the down-voters, I was pointing to the anti patterns employed by the developers to make it just about impossible at first sight to exit. You can't right click the task bar, there's no option on the file menu to exit.

You actually have to sign out first. THEN you are given the option to exit the app. Before I discovered this, it was enough for me to uninstall the app. I have no idea why you'd make it this hard to just exit an app.

(My son uses it to talk to his friends across the world, and for him it works great; that's why I opened with "it's all good and fun".)

100 people, 4 hours.. that’s not a call, that’s a conference.

Similar vibes from that Brennan Lee Mulligan's Skype CEO impression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI0w_pwZY3E

Yes but what about when we need all hands on deck to brainstorm synergy ideas Bob? Better call a meeting with everybody.

So, Google should stop dumping and raise prices or remove features sure as calls lasting for more than one hour from the free version...?

Yes, it’s going to be way better for the diversity of products offered on the market. Probably not for long-term Google strategy.