[HN Gopher] Bringing Google Meet features to Duo for a single, i...
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       Bringing Google Meet features to Duo for a single, integrated video
       solution
        
       Author : Macacity
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2022-06-01 16:07 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
        
       | nakedrobot2 wrote:
       | 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?
        
         | rg111 wrote:
         | Google Duo has _the best_ video quality in video chats in
         | Android.
         | 
         | This has been my first-hand experience.
        
           | alephxyz wrote:
           | It helps that they have more servers than users
        
         | hadrien01 wrote:
         | Google Duo is Facetime, Google Meet is Teams
        
           | Tajnymag wrote:
           | More like Zoom IMO
        
           | m-p-3 wrote:
           | Google Chat is Teams
        
       | joshstrange wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | netsharc wrote:
         | 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?).
        
       | fwn wrote:
       | Securitywise this is just a downgrade: Google Duo was end to end
       | encrypted, Google Meet is not.
       | 
       | It doesn't look like they're going to tell anyone about it.
        
       | tencentshill wrote:
        
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