I’ve said before that Google isn’t that serious about enterprise communications. My main proof point was the bungling of the Google Voice opportunity. I’ve been using Google Apps from nearly the beginning. Although not as robust as Microsoft Office, it...
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The transition to using WebRTC in Hangouts is perhaps a bit overstated. It’s still a work in progress. As a result Hangouts won’t interop with anything else just yet. Here’s the scoop in more depth: http://webrtchacks.com/hangout-analysis-philipp-hancke/
Yes, thanks. @Aswath said similar. I should have stated Hangouts is VP8 compatible. I suspect it’s on the way to being WebRTC compliant, but who knows.
Maybe useful for whoever gets here like I did, looking for a lync/hangouts comparison: just got off a 1.5h lync session with just 8 participants – no video, just document sharing, and the session still dropped like 15 times for me. Never happens with hangouts.