While Messages and RCS is how Google wants you to message friends, Google Chat also fits that role and the company today reminded us...
  • isdfoa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Google should just make a web app for Messages and integrate meet for video calls. Leave Chat as a enterprise thing/Slack competitor and focus on Messages as the family + friends app.

    I use meet for video chats with friends but it’s so annoying having to always create a room and then send the invite link.

  • lastweakness@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I recently discovered that Google Meet allows you to sync-play YouTube videos with anyone on Android as long as the one who starts the sharing session has YouTube Premium. That got me thinking though… Just how much effort has Google put into features that I don’t think anybody knows about?

    • menturi@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s funny to think that Google Hangouts had this feature a while back. It’s more than just putting effort into features; it’s also implementing similar features into multiple apps at different points in time.

      • lastweakness@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, it’s super weird. And it’s not even like they’re reusing code or anything. The Hangouts version was basically embedded YouTube like we see in Discord but the current Meets implementation is within the YouTube app, which is really neat but again, why don’t more people know about it?

  • lightrush@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Nice try! 😂

    They’ve thrown so much advocacy capital into the wind that at this point they need to offer something more than - hey look, there’s a product you can use.