Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone

Post by Tobu » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 9:32 AM UTC

CtrlD-me wrote: post #45

fraencko wrote: post #41

I use meet professionally on a daily basis as my company is a GApps for business customer and most people I talked to are pretty satisfied. Sound, connection and video quality is very good, far better than Slack in my opinion. We had meetings with more than 100 paticipants. Integration in Google Calendar is also a big plus. One pretty minor thing that bothers me is that the webcam and mic mute toggles and the hang up…

Ctrl+d toggles the mic

Post by brynjolf » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 9:35 AM UTC

kartayyar wrote: post #76

grandinj wrote: post #48

I don't have the mental space to waste filling it with details of another Google communication product they are going to discontinue in a year.

Google products ( and other tech company products ) are discontinued when they don't take off. Meet has a 100 million daily call participants. And really with video conferencing product, I don't get the whole trope of "but they might discontinue it." - the utility is immediate in terms of the calls that you make with it, and time boxed till by when a call ends.

Post by numakerg » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 9:36 AM UTC

DrScump wrote: post #18

sneak wrote: post #12

> We do not allow anonymous users (i.e., without a Google Account) to join meetings created by individual accounts. Reminder: it is impossible to get a Google Account without giving your phone number (and thus permitting access your traditional identity information with it: name, street address, et c) to Google, who can then tie it to any existing Google cookies and your IP. Demanding that your communications partner…

it is impossible to get a Google Account without giving your phone number I just now tried the Google account creation process on an unactivated mobile device, and entering a phone number can be skipped. Entering a birthdate was mandatory.

Post by starfallg » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 9:39 AM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #67

crazysim wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They definitely saw Zoom crushin' in an internal call. Hilarious. https://9to5google.com/2020/04/25/google-meet-zoom-competiti...

Wow, that must have been embarrassing. Also, from the article: > In some cases, though, many are just wondering how this service hardly anyone had heard of became so popular. Yeah, the first time I've heard of Zoom was when it landed on HN frontpage for doing some shady stuff on MacOS. Fast forward few months, my wife is asking me if I heard of it, because she'll have to start using it... I was similarly blindsided b…

Post by ToFab123 » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 9:40 AM UTC

EGreg wrote: post #62

sneak wrote: post #12

> We do not allow anonymous users (i.e., without a Google Account) to join meetings created by individual accounts. Reminder: it is impossible to get a Google Account without giving your phone number (and thus permitting access your traditional identity information with it: name, street address, et c) to Google, who can then tie it to any existing Google cookies and your IP. Demanding that your communications partner…

How exactly would you get the traditional identity info like the address FROM A PHONE NUMBER?