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To echo others, 720p is a bummer, but if you're using most laptops, you're capped at a 720p camera anyway, so it's not a huge deal. To start with, it changed its privacy settings around, a needed change because those settings haven’t had It's simple, it's quick, and it Just Works (tm). Android Authority - Joe Hindy / Android Authority Welcome to the 397th edition of Android Apps Weekly Here are the big headlines from the last week: WhatsApp spent its entire week doing stuff for its privacy.
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Simple, and really effective.If you're a GSuite customer, you should consider meeting rooms before going down the Zoom/Zoom Room paths at least until you have a decent IT support team.I've been using Google Meet on a daily basis for the past few months.I also use Zoom on a daily basis and I also occasionally make video calls in Slack, Teams and meet.jit.si.Given that there's already lots of good info in the other answers here, I'll try to stick to my specific experience and include relevant comparisons to these other services.Until recently, Google Meet wasn't great with larger groups as there was no tiled view where it was possible to see everyone on the call (Zoom has had this for a fair while), but feature has now been added and it works pretty well. Between $2000-3000ish, depending, for the basic Meet Kit in the box we have a few rooms with Logitech gear and others that vary in cost.There is not a better value in VC than the Meet Kits that give you a chromebox, huddly go camera, speakermic, touch panel, and everything you need (except an HDMI cable and a screen) and work in a large room.You can see the kits here: but if you work with a vendor they will likely have different/discount pricing for you and also if you're buying more than one.Zoom has yet to come out with a competitor to the 'meeting room in a box' concept and the real killer is the chromeboxes are basically ultra kiosks they require no IT hands on support after install, so if they go down, users just turn them off and then back on and they auto boot into kiosk mode. If/when you return to an office and need this, it's far cheaper and easier to manage than dealing with Gsuite + Zoom + Zoom Rooms, and you have far less admin overhead than zoom rooms.It's hard to say as it varies by geo. It works exceptionally well with the Asus/Acer Meet Kits with a speakermic, camera, chromebook, just BYO screen and you've got a meeting room with the UI that is familiar with other users. No pre work or install required (if folks have locked down systems for example.)The other thing not mentioned here is that Meet is fantastic with meeting rooms.
Teams has this feature as well although I've only tried the 'blur' option and it worked quite well too.Based on my experience with these different services I'd rank them as follows for features and call quality (security is an entirely different conversation. Plus many laptop cough all MacBook webcams are only 720p at best anyway, so the extra res available with other services isn't always useful.As for recording, I believe this is possible in Google Meet with certain G Suite plans, but doesn't come for free.The main feature that Zoom has that I miss in Google Meet is virtual backgrounds.I'm often sitting in front of a whiteboard and may not want the contents of that whiteboard to be visible, so having the ability to obscure my background with Zoom's virtual background feature is great and something that I hope comes to Google Meet soon. It still falls behind Zoom a little, but it is far better than the experiences I've had with the other services.
