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by Kjeldahl 2247 days ago
If I read it right, they still require everybody joining to have a Google account. Which means the others that don't require this will keep growing. I mean, we're a Google shop ok, but requiring our customers to use google accounts is just something that we can not do.
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We don't see that and use Meet (via GSuite) to have external calls with people and have never heard that that require a Google account.
Because the paid G Suite behaves different than the free Meet they announce now. Makes sense, because external dial (via phone) costs them money.
I think you are misreading it, and you only need a Google Account to host not to join.
> We do not allow anonymous users (i.e., without a Google Account) to join meetings created by individual accounts.

This quote from the linked post would suggest otherwise.

I think what that means is, if you have a GSuite account, you can let anonymous users join your Meet. But if you just have an individual, personal account, you cannot.

So, if you are a G shop already, then it shouldn't prevent your customers from joining your meeting without having a Google account. But if you're trying to host that meeting via a personal Gmail account, you will run into a problem if a non-Google account tries to join.

Missed that, good point.
Funnily enough, gsuite let’s you share a document to a non google email address. You’d think meet would add that functionality.