Google Meet is a paid Google Workspace product. You can feel fairly comfortable about it compared to their consumer products.

> Google Meet is a paid Google Workspace product

Nest was a paid, acquired, hardware product. If a product manager gets distracted, any Google product—apart from ads—will, if not fail, dramatically degrade. Google are a terrible company to bet anything important on.

Google meet is used for all the meetings internally. I doubt it's going to go anywhere. What would we do, pay for zoom?

It's a shame webrtc uses it's own protocol. Otherwise there would probably be dozens of self hostable alternatives.

It's not dozens, but Jitsi is a very decent open-source self-hostable alternative to Google Meet or Zoom.

WebRTC is an open standard, you can absolutely self-host a WebRTC video chat site, and there are many implementations available like Jitsi.

webrtc uses its own protocol?

Google arguably had first mover advantage in the video space which was the promised land even before Covid blessed it.

And yet by the time it hit this year, Zoom took the prize. I think this represents a much bigger fail on Google's part than I have seen being mentioned.

Nobody expects Google to competently execute. Their failures aren’t newsworthy.

Compare the effect on competitors’ stock prices when Amazon or Apple announce they’re moving into a market versus Google or Microsoft.

Skype had about a 10 year head start on this and amazingly it's like the one brand I don't hear mentioned at all when it comes to video chat

Teams has on the order of 75 million daily active users, but it's the typical Microsoft story. Not widely talked about among startups, but totally ubiquitous in most companies.

Both Microsoft and Google dropped the ball bigtime by letting WhatsApp take the whole international messaging market.

I remember how refreshingly easy to use Whatsapp was when it came out. It was such a pain to transfer contacts and images and whatnot before, and having to worry about international MMS/SMS charges. Then this tiny little app comes along and blows all the others away by simple requiring phone number verification.

Didn't they abandon that product for Teams, for enterprise users/customers?