Google if you're reading this (and I doubt you are), you need to have ONE unified messaging app that does Chat, Group Chat, Screen Presenting, Screen Sharing (remote control) and Recording so those of us in the work environment can be more efficient with our time.Windows 10, macOS, Linux (including Ubuntu), iOS, Android and Blackberry With Google we had to start with Hangouts, move to Meet and eventually jump into a Webex or GoToAsssist session just to get something fixed. So with Skype we did everything in 1 app and it was quick. Bob needs to take over the computer and fix something? Oh great now let's create a Webex session and let's all jump into yet another thread and get our work done. Hey we need Bob in this conversation, good luck pinging him so I email him instead and he joins in BUT we have to tell him what's going on because he can't read the chat thread at all. Need to share your screen? Sorry, we now need to create a whole new conversation thread in Meet just so I can share my screen. What a mess! Need to ping someone in Chat? Maybe they hear the notification and respond but in most cases they don't hear or see anything and eventually respond when they bring up the chat app. Now I'm working at a new place that all G-Suite based. Best part, people who jump into the conversation can see the entire chat thread! It was always running, we can ping someone and get immediate response because the notification actually works, and we can quickly start sharing our screens, controlling the remote screen, and even add people to the conversation all within one app. Having a Google Hangouts and Google Meet as two separate applications is down right stupid and not user friendly.Īt my previous job we used Microsoft products - Outlook with Exchange Server, Skype (Lynx), etc. Meet should be based on Hangout's code but with more added to it for doing meetings and such. Hangouts for personal use and Meet for business use. make up your mind! There should be two apps and that's it - Hangouts and Meet. Google's Messaging Platform is a mess! Hangouts, Google Hangouts, Meet, etc. And in my country SMS is dead, literally. I'm really out of the options if HO and Allo is not going to be present. Telegram is the way to go, but very few of people I know want to use it. Whatsapp and FB Messenger and no go as like Viber are hard on spying the users. Skype is out of the question for me, Viber also, and FB is. I don't want gSuite, don't need it for personal use, but still love the HO features. I'm not sure where to switch after the shutdown as the users I'm communicating with will scatter over bunch of different services and Google is not talking about the "all in one" option for end users like HO is. The best video chat out there is via Hangouts. as it's in gmail, previously in G+ and it has separate desktop app (Chrome app). It's the most intuitive way of communicating with friends, clients etc. I don't remember when it all started, but I know it was on jabber or something. Sometimes I worry I'm in a bubble so I honestly want to know, is ANYONE out there who used to use Hangouts proper now using "Hangouts Chat" for personal things? Is there a single person who prefers MORE apps rather than a well-designed app that can do more things, at least in the chat space? It seems so backwards to me to break things up, and the idea of wasting resources developing some parallel business vs personal track makes even less sense. It actually makes more sense this way - I would think for business you'd want your video separate from your non-video. My normal account still uses Hangouts - on the web and on my phone. I know that's how they pitched it but does ANYONE see this in real life? My (large) company uses Google services as our email client, and it's actually the ONLY place I see "Hangouts Chat" and "Hangouts Meet" - in my business account. "With Hangouts now being used for business purposes and Chat being developed for consumer use, the regular Hangouts app no longer serves any real purpose."
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