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		paxys on April 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 You are conflating two very different business models. Google needs these products to generate ad revenue. They already have the GSuite stack that competes with Microsoft.

bane on April 22, 2020 [–]

Forget the business models. Duo and hangouts don't present me with ads for example. So that doesn't matter in any way in this comparison.

What google needs to do is to stop fracturing communication modes across every single conceivable strata they can identify.

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