Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
by hadlock on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:17PM
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I've been using gmail since the early beta days and was never aware of this functionality. But on closer inspection there appears to be a highly stylized (unrecognizable) camera icon there that takes me to, I guess the long lost cousin of Google Meet?? Why are these apps welded together? What a bizarre decision. I thought Meet went to The Graveyard along with Allo and Duo and Wave.
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My work uses GSuite so I’m using Meet every day. I find it mildly useful to have the functionality built into the Gmail app but at the same time I see zero loss in having it be a separate app.
Meet was discontinued; its functionality was merged into Duo and the resulting app renamed to Meet.
Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
by SaltyBackendGuy on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:41PM
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Meet still works on Pixel phones as a solution/parity for FaceTime. I wonder if it's bundled in the web build or they're the same build under the hood.