* It's nearly instantaneous to use. You can just bookmark any prior meeting ID you created and reuse it indefinitely. You just click the meeting on your bookmark toolbar and join the meeting. Creating a new meeting is also nearly effortless.
* Works right in your web browser. It doesn't default to pushing you to use a native executable.
* IMO, the video and audio both are slightly better than Zoom.
Google Meet or Hangouts from years ago was quite bad, but it has improved nicely.
I am using zoom rarely and every time I am baffled by it's horrible UX. Why do people use it?
Firm disagree.
Three days ago, I presented a video in a google meet stream for 50+ people. For three minutes the stream dropped frames , displayed visual artifacts and lagged behind my narration.
I was on gigabit internet and so were my colleagues.
I never had this problem with zoom, and I would never use google meets for a streaming setup again.
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/04/high-quality-vi...
Normal Google Meet Present is optimized for slides/docs which is a very different problem than streaming video.
When streaming the desktop, the browser doesn't get notified when some region on the screen changes. That means it has to retrieve a bitmap of the screen and 'diff' it with every frame, which is computationally heavy.
The most egregious example was when value of all of EMC’s business was worth less than the value of their VMWare ownership stake.
The Zoom story is really cool, and the business is simple. Are they actually worth $75B in a crowded, competitive market? We’ll see!
Whereas Zoom? They do one thing, and they do it well (enough). You don't download Zoom Hangouts one year and then switch to Zoom Duo then Zoom Allo and then migrate Zoom Meet. You just use Zoom and it works well enough.
I feel like Zoom has basically eaten Google's lunch here, not by actually being a better offering, but by simply being a straightforward proposition. Perhaps Google can learn some lessons for the future...