Meet by Google - Enterprise-friendly version of Google Hangouts

@gabriel__lewis What even is the full list now? * Hangouts * Allo * Duo (if you count it) * Messenger (to become Android Messenger) *Spaces and now * Meet by Google I mean. I'm all for messaging, but they really need to settle on what their plan is. Hangouts was a fine app, accessible everywhere, and despite being kind of gross looking, useful. I don't even know where to message my friends at anymore. I have a four page folder on my homescreen full of messaging apps that I use to message my friends, family, work, stranger, people I'm interviewing, all of it. We really need a one/all solution for this problem I"m sure most of us deal with. There's just no app that really fits what we all want right now. I'd say Whatsapp, but not many Americans that I know use it. It's more of an international thing, which really puts me on a bummer since it's such a fantastic app. I like Keybase {https://keybase.io/}, but it doesn't have a mobile app yet. (I talked to the founder and he said it'd be another three months or so). Everything else just dodges out on something that I want, or simply feels tacky. I don't even know what Facebook Messenger has become? Is it Snapchat? Is it Whatsapp? Is it a gross frankenstein-esque monster (in the sense of hagged together, rather than destroying its creator) that prompts me to send stickers to my mother constantly? Who knows?! I just don't see a solution anymore to this problem, and Google is doing everything in its power to make it worse it seems.

Allo, Hangouts, Gtalk....etc. etc...how many does the company need?

Interesting. We used hangouts for a long time but recently switched to zoom because of so many connection issues with hangouts. If they fix the connection issues, this could be a strong competitor to Zoom. Super happy with Zoom so far though.

Seems to require Chrome? That's unfortunate.

Interesting. A little bit like appear.in (persistent links, yeah) mixed with more powerful features like call-in. Will give this a try tomorrow.

The issue with Google is that they are not focused. They come up with a new product every once in a while and then abandons it and replaces it with something else that goes out of the market in a few months.

The app doesn't appear to be live in the US app store yet, but if it can show me hangouts for the meetings on my calendar I'm up for it. Finding the hangout link for meetings on iOS is a huge pain right now.

Hmm this is interesting, for my G Apps Business account it still routes through Hangouts... One of my biggest issues with Hangouts is not being able to distribute dial-in numbers, which is a pain. We've been using Skype for Business as well since we use O365 which is also going through some positive changes at the moment.

Isn't this what Hangouts was going to become - video chat/chat for business? I'm sorry, Google is just lost when it comes to communication/chat apps.

I can see the path forward: offer Meet, deprecate Hangout, finally end the sad sad place that is Google+. I really don't know, though, how someone trusts Google given their track record on non-essential office replacements. Not a chance I'll adopt this when there are reliable options out there for video or unreliable options that are at least well adopted.