Google has declared open war against its videoconferencing rivals
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Google has declared open war against its videoconferencing rivals
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Re: Google has declared open war against its videoconferencing rivals
#2I wouldn't even be annoyed by this if the product was actually quality. I'd actually love to stop paying for Zoom.
Remember when every product Google put out was absolutely best in class - Talk, Reader, Gmail, Maps? Lately they seem to have mostly mediocre products - Google+, Hangouts, Meet - that they try to stuff down on users by main force.
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#3People dislike Zoom for censorship and security issues.
If they dislike Zoom, they'll hate Meet (no big security issues so far, but surely many privacy issues)
Even if Meet is installed with Gmail, Android phone owners don't have to use it.
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#4I wouldn't even be annoyed by this if the product was actually quality. I'd actually love to stop paying for Zoom. Remember when every product Google put out was absolutely best in class - Talk, Reader, Gmail, Maps? Lately they seem to have mostly mediocre products - Google+, Hangouts, Meet - that they try to stuff down on users by main force.
The decline in quality coincides with the rise of Facebook (financially) and Google missing earnings estimates in a couple of quarters.
Nevermind the fact that Facebook has been repeatedly caught simply making up ad numbers to push their revenue. Wall St doesn't care if you lie about the numbers, as long as the share price rises in the short term.
When you succumb to investor demand for cost cutting and short term revenue goals, you are from that point forward locked into product quality decline and are a marketing concern, not a business doing whatever you were in business to do before.
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#5So let me get this straight: adding a link to Gmail amounts to "declaring open war"? And the author is writing Zoom's obituary because this tactic worked so well for Google+?
Re: Google has declared open war against its videoconferencing rivals
#6Google has had every advantage in making communications platforms (counting video chat and/or text chat) and they've bungled every one of their many, many attempts. It's simply incredible. Between owning the most popular smartphone platform, the most popular search engine, and the most popular email platform, they had the wind at their back to say the least. And yet, they've lost traction with every one of their many iterations of platforms. I don't even bother to learn the names of, much less use, their communications products. Pour one out for your software developer compatriots getting assigned to the next google communications clients whose successor is already being spun up before you have a chance to fail.
Re: Google has declared open war against its videoconferencing rivals
#7How about beating Slack first? Slack charges more.
Re: Google has declared open war against its videoconferencing rivals
#8How about beating Slack first? Slack charges more.
I don't like Slack that much, as a matter of fact I try to avoid it as much as I can, still I must admit is a far more comprehensive service for communicating with a team compared to Zoom, which essentially is just a video chat. So the price difference seems quite reasonable to me.
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#9Thanks Google for disrespecting the users and adding useless bloat in their Gmail Android app to abuse of their dominant position.
So now, hundreds more mega bytes of storage will be lost in my phone even if I don't use Google Meet.
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#10Yeah. Google has become Microsoft.