[zabhi]

They should have charged for this feature. People I know would have paid a bomb for a feature that put hard limits on call duration.

[foobar33333]

Make it part of google one. "Buy any google one storage plan and get google meet for free". At least then they can tie it to something people are used to paying for.

[danuker]

If it would be seen as a luxury service people might want to pay for it, in spite of it actually being cheaper for Google to supply.

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