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by nakedrobot2 1483 days ago
Sorry, but what the f*k is google duo?

Does anyone even know what the current name for google's video call or chat product is called?

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Google Duo has the best video quality in video chats in Android.

This has been my first-hand experience.

It helps that they have more servers than users
Have you tried Whereby?
Google Duo is Facetime, Google Meet is Teams
More like Zoom IMO
Google Chat is Teams
Seems like it’s basically become what Google Hangouts was…4? years ago.
Exactly. Turns out people like

- Having chat and calls in one app

- Being able to make other people's devices ring if required (and not having to send a meeting invite code in a completely different app and coordinate with the other party to join)

- Being able to log in using their Google account rather than doing some weird dance involving their phone number

- Using more than one device simply by logging in using their account, rather than "linking an additional device to their phone" (which of course has to be the center of it all)

Seems like the same thing is happening to Pay/Wallet too. It was always completely beyond me how they would rip out "Login with Google" from their own products and replace it with a phone-number-based single-device model.