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Meet is pretty dang solid, and is pretty much exclusively used for “work” or anything related to a calendar invite. The rest of their video chat seems to be reserved for P2P/personal communications.



> Meet is pretty dang solid

It’s being whooped by Teams and Zoom, latecomers, in no small part because Google can’t help but rename it every six months.


I believe enterprises choose those either because:

(A) they've already bought into Office 365, so Teams being free to them makes it a no-brainer

or (B) Zoom was the first big name during Covid, so companies that bought into it don't consider changing due to the friction that would cause.

Pretty much every company I've interacted with over interviews and meetings who does use Google Workspace ends up using Meet as well, for the same reason enterprises using O365 as their user directory choose Teams (reason A above).


Sure. Nobody disputes Google’s tech chops. It’s the business side that’s been perennially problematic. That applies to Starlight as much as it does to Meet.


Zoom’s stock is down 86% from ATH. They’re hardly thriving.




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