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Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team

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Google please, do not screw up Meet. It’s a good product, it works, it’s stable, it has hardware support, it has POTS integration. Please please please.

Couldn't agree more. I had worked for Microsoft before where a) there were hardly any special screens for VCs in meeting rooms - mostly you'd connect your laptop and start Skype (for business), or later Teams, b) the typical 5 minutes at the start of the meeting went with "can you hear me?" - "hello?" before things got settled. What a waste.

With Google meet, finally somebody did the _one job_ they needed to solve (low-latency, mostly-working VC over IP) and they solved the user interface + calendar integration. I love it.

It’s funny.. I was at Microsoft recently for some meetings and their rooms were Teams integrated. On at least one occasion we had to revert to Hangouts Meet+HDMI in the room to get external people to join simply because Teams wouldn’t work. The best thing about Meet is the simplicity.

Duo is great, very underappreciated in the US. The video call quality in intermittent networks seems hands down the best for me (we use at work when slack or zoom have issues).

> Soltero tells me that there are no immediate plans to change or integrate any of Google’s apps, so don’t get your hopes up for that (yet). “We believe people make choices around the products that they use for specific purposes,” Soltero says.

> Still, Google’s communications apps are in dire need of a more coherent and opinionated production development...

No immediate plans, but there’s a need for coherency. I’m expecting a new “one communication app to rule them all” within a few months (which likely means a few more rounds of existing apps being canned and consolidated “to eliminate user confusion”).

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