It is nothing short of exasperating…
It is nothing short of exasperating that, in 2025—a time when artificial intelligence shapes entire industries and claims to revolutionise collaboration—two of the world’s dominant meeting platforms, Zoom and Google Meet, continue to deliver such inadequate, half-baked products. Their relentless focus on stripped-down, “minimum viable product” approaches leaves users wrestling with the same childish limitations year after year.
Want to host a genuinely interactive lesson or meeting, keeping a whiteboard and video of all participants visible at once? Too bad—neither platform can do it on tablets, where all the potential for true mobile collaboration withers behind inflexible layouts and missing features. Video control, real engagement tools, and even basic host management feel like afterthoughts, with every update prioritising superficial tweaks or AI marketing over substance.
What these platforms call “innovation” is little more than a trickle of incremental changes, always a step behind real needs. They’ve become incapable of envisioning—or delivering—the next generation of digital collaboration. The result is a wasted half-decade for education, business, and anyone hoping for grown-up, fit-for-purpose meeting software.
One can only hope that a serious challenger—with the ambition and maturity to actually solve these problems—will finally knock Zoom and Meet off their MVP perches. Maybe it will take real competition from the likes of HarmonyOS or another visionary platform to force their hand and end this era of underwhelming, juvenile video tools.
