I would love to use another product if one could even compete in the same league. Try using Teams, for instance, and you won’t wonder anymore why people use Zoom
Edit: Ok actually some Meet complaints: Weird useless white space in the UI. Doesn't put people's faces at the top of the window closer to the camera (will push them to the bottom and put screen share above). Very annoying settings UI. Generally doesn't work well when the window is small. No floating window option. No option to rearrange participant tiles. Probably 100 more like that, but it's still tolerable.
Zoom just works on both of my devices.
It has steadily gotten worse ever since they started aggressively pushing users to log in, and also have phone browsers force redirect to the app (which is worse than the mobile web version was…)
But why are you on a (presumably) work call when you're driving over a hill with two bars? Put the work down for crying out loud. I'd love it if people like you were forced to just turn the god damn thing off when you can't actually attend a meeting instead of setting unrealistic expectations for the rest of us... It is just not that fucking important.
"feels great, jim!"
IME, Teams is better than Zoom for meetings.
Its worse than alternatives at everything else (at a text-centric asynchronous multimedia group communication tool, its far worse than Slack, for instance).
Like...all these products do video calls fine. They all seem to work. What's the killer feature that one has that the others don't?
No, they don't. Teams does not work at all on MacOS with Intel silicon, just for starters.
That's not helpful when you're trying to chat with someone who for whatever reason is stuck with a MacBook. This is why Zoom is so great: you can actually count on it working with everyone's computer. With everything else, there always seems to be some combination of hardware+OS+browser that just doesn't work. That's completely unacceptable for a video chat platform that needs to be usable by everyone. If you're just chatting with one or two friends, one of the others might be fine since number of different platforms isn't very high and you can pick something that works for the 2 of you, but for something that needs to be usable by anyone at any time, it won't work.
Does the browser version work well on macos? I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work on chrome.
Not if you're interviewing candidates using video-chat. What's the company supposed to do, FedEx overnight a company laptop to the candidate just for doing a video interview?
>Does the browser version work well on macos?
In my experience, no. It consumes all the CPU.
What problems are you running into?
Not sure what you're on about. I'm all for shitting on Teams, as the chat and specifically group chat functionality is horrible, especially compared to slack (that has its own issues).
But claiming it doesn't work at all is a big one.
>(It's a massive battery drain and CPU hog, but other than that it works)
That doesn't fit with my definition of "works".
There are some awesome features with teams that other apps lack, meeting chat being integrated into the rest of teams, and getting notifications for when recordings are available. the key features leave a lot to be desired though.
On the other hand with zoom I did had the experience of it just arbitrary not working at all for me.