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Bringing Google Meet features to Duo for a single, integrated video solution

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Re: Bringing Google Meet features to Duo for a single, integrated video solution

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Post by Tajnymag »

hadrien01 wrote: post #4
nakedrobot2 wrote: post #3

Sorry, but what the f*k is google duo? Does anyone even know what the current name for google's video call or chat product is called?

Google Duo is Facetime, Google Meet is Teams

More like Zoom IMO

Re: Bringing Google Meet features to Duo for a single, integrated video solution

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Post by rg111 »

nakedrobot2 wrote: post #3

Sorry, but what the f*k is google duo? Does anyone even know what the current name for google's video call or chat product is called?

Google Duo has the best video quality in video chats in Android.

This has been my first-hand experience.

Re: Bringing Google Meet features to Duo for a single, integrated video solution

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Post by m-p-3 »

hadrien01 wrote: post #4
nakedrobot2 wrote: post #3

Sorry, but what the f*k is google duo? Does anyone even know what the current name for google's video call or chat product is called?

Google Duo is Facetime, Google Meet is Teams

Google Chat is Teams

Re: Bringing Google Meet features to Duo for a single, integrated video solution

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Post by joshstrange »

Does google even understand how much they've screwed up chat? (text, voice, or video?)

Every time this comes up I can't help but shake my head and wonder how they dropped the ball so bad, so many times. I understand the whole "release a new product to climb the ladder"-problem but are the top-level execs really so blind that they continue to make the same mistakes (or allow it happen) over and over again?

Google Wallet/Pay/"whatever it's called this week" has the same issues. It's just astounding to me.

Re: Bringing Google Meet features to Duo for a single, integrated video solution

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Post by netsharc »

joshstrange wrote: post #9

Does google even understand how much they've screwed up chat? (text, voice, or video?) Every time this comes up I can't help but shake my head and wonder how they dropped the ball so bad, so many times. I understand the whole "release a new product to climb the ladder"-problem but are the top-level execs really so blind that they continue to make the same mistakes (or allow it happen) over and over again? Google Wall…

I presume inside Google it's a brawl of teams competing with each other, and if I had to guess the project managers probably lobby the execs hard to ensure their app survives...

I wanted to quickly find the story of how inside Microsoft the teams were also at war with each other, IIRC it was the Windows team vs the Office team, results of putting the query "microsoft insider competition windows team vs office team" in Google or DuckDuckGo:

- Links/articles about Microsoft Teams

- Links/articles about Windows/Office Insider (ie. their beta program?).

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