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Am I the only one who thinks Google Meet is no where near Zoom (stability, resolution, etc)?

I doubt it works on Safari (it won't let me talk). If you ask why I'm on Safari, it's because I couldn't grant it microphone access on Chrome (for unknown reason).

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You are not the only one. In my experience Google Meet is significantly worse than Zoom, especially under pressure. Even slight degradation in bandwidth that zoom scarcely notices causes dramatic sync and audio issues, and it almost always seems to have worse video resolution than zoom under similar network conditionns. I used to think it was only like that because I didn't have very beefy hardware but having upgraded my laptop to a very high end processor spec and lots of memory it hasn't improved at all.

I don't know where you guys work but I have worked in very big co with meeting attended by entire organization > 50 and much more. Google Meeting, in chrome, worked just fine. I am not sure about other browsers. But I prefer chrome to having to install a client. Also, I find Google Meeting interface much cleaner and easy to use than Zoom. In addition, you can record meetings; they are stored in GDrive and you can share them. Plus, you get captions and transcriptions. All in all, is a much superior product.

Google meet in Chrome is way better than Zoom. Safari is a different story, it keeps reloading for me every 15 minutes.

Yeah, I feel like it only works in Chrome. After a few minutes of having it open in Firefox the quality degrades to the point it becomes unusable.

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