Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Google gave 2 apps the same name?!”.
I definitely want to talk about how there are now two google meets okay, yeah. I heard about this and my eyes rolled into the back of my head and i moved on because i didn’t even want to know what was happening so yeah. What what is it? Um, google now has two two google meets it’s not enough for them to have competing video chat products internally now they actually have the same name, even though they’re different programs in fairness, in fairness, microsoft, i think, was the first to this innovation with their multiple versions Of skype, and now multiple versions of teams wasn’t okay hold on. Wasn’T it skype for business yeah, but still that’s clear enough. No just log in with a business, login freaking account and have business features you idiots.
No, no! You don’t have skype for business and skype. I think there’s different ways that it’s like actually built. Well, then pick the one, that’s good and use that one yeah, it’s probably more expensive. I mean it’s like well back when they used to have two separate freaking kernels for their operating system, the good one for business and the crap one for home, so to get get rid of the crap that one’s less defensive, obviously, obviously, who’s in charge. Skype for business was link yeah and i, in my opinion, that was a better name. To be honest, sorry, i get kind of angry about this kind of crap. So tell me about the two meets all right: um google meet was originally launched as a zoom-like video communication successor to hangouts, which hilariously still exists. The fact that all the video like video to video communication companies allowed zoom to like become what it is is pathetic.
I’M sorry yeah, but it is from january to april 2020 meets user. Count grew by a factor of 30, with roughly 100 million users per day. Google duo was launched earlier as a one-to-one and group call app meant for a from for smaller scale, use. Think facetime skype or discord if it’s scalable then use it. If it’s not, scalable then put it on the shelf goodbye. Why do you need a good scalable one and a crap? Not scalable? Sorry, sorry! Okay, as the pandemic went on, the need for both styles of communication grew, and so did the apps as a result. Duo as the smaller service has been free, branded meat and will receive the features from both apps and meat is still meat. So we have two meats um, so meat, not even like a business they’re, both business or consumer, so meat is compatible with both duo and meat, but meat is compatible only with meat.
Eventually, the old meat app will be phased out in favor of the duo app with meat functionality, which is now being called meat. This is horrible. How does this stuff happen? Users of duo don’t have to do anything. The app was updated automatically with meat support. Last month and has icon changed earlier this week and i’m assuming its name want to see something that makes me really angry. As someone who used hangouts as our internal business chat as part of g suite for so long then switched off of it. First, to slack, which we had issues with, was it slack i? I wasn’t a part of that. I think it was like first to slack then to teams both of which we’ve had numerous numerous issues with hangouts for all its warts and all its simplicity did did mostly just work um and was convenient because it was always open in your gmail tab, always okay. So, every time i see this, i get irrationally angry because they told me hang ups is going away, so we like rush, migrated off of it. Now when you go to share something in android and you click gmail, it freaking prompts you gmail or chat. No, no! No gmail, you told me chat, which is what hangouts is now and the one that’s built into your email. You told me it was going away.
I believed you, that’s what i get for believing anything. You say when i click gmail, i mean email, that’s what i mean don’t make me press more, don’t make me press more buttons and the hilarious thing is that oh okay, it doesn’t it doesn’t right now. So i’m not sure why. But there used to be a chat. Oh, this is chat. This is different chat. No, no that because that’s there’s a standalone chat, app aside from chat built into the gmail app. How are they so bad at this? So bell said that the the meat app on his phone is now named meet and then original in brackets yeah just updated one day on my iphone, i was like what is this long name original funny, yeah mine? Is that too, what the heck wow .