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Re:Material 3 Expressive: Better, Easier, Emotional UX by jameskilton on Friday May 16, 2025 @07:45AM (#44004209)
One of the good things that came out of COVID was Google Docs suddenly getting a whole lot better. Why? Because Google engineers finally had to use their tools like the rest of us do, and found out very quickly that Google Docs on normal consumer internet connections sucked.

Google as a company, and in many ways Silicon Valley as a whole, is designed around being a bubble that is ignorant of how the rest of the world actually functions.

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Re:Material 3 Expressive: Better, Easier, Emotional UX by dieortin on Friday May 16, 2025 @08:10AM (#44004451)
Pretty sure Google has used Docs internally since long before COVID.
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Re:Material 3 Expressive: Better, Easier, Emotional UX by Octoth0rpe on Friday May 16, 2025 @08:25AM (#44004589)
"used Docs internally" is not the same as:

> on normal consumer internet connections

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Re:Material 3 Expressive: Better, Easier, Emotional UX by PaulHoule on Friday May 16, 2025 @09:22AM (#44005198)
Oh yeah. One of my pet peeves is that every comms product from Google (say Google Meet) works poorly on a slow internet connection, and slow could be something not bad at all, say 20 Mbps. Zoom, the former Skype, Slack Huddles, Go2Meeting, absolutely every other product has good audio quality and tolerable video quality. With Google products there are dropouts every few seconds so you can't understand what the other people are saying.
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Re:Material 3 Expressive: Better, Easier, Emotional UX by sojsurf on Friday May 16, 2025 @09:30AM (#44005297)
I have used Google meet exclusively for a number of years, multiple times a day on the cheapest Internet connection I can buy in my area. It is consistently a better experience then Zoom or Teams.

The only caveat is that the experience is not good on Firefox. Google meet is the only thing I use Chrome/Brave for.

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