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Comment by graypegg

It's odd to me that they wanted to make a whole new "app" for this, rather than building in some sort of timeline into slides. Powerpoint supports automatically transitioning slides and auto playing video, so with some fancy magic in the export where they slice the video for each slide, you could even do everything in a "compatible" way. Slides would of course be able to keep the video on top of the slides + transitions, playing at all times.

Though to be fair, this could just be slides' codebase, with some extra UI changes on top of it. Just feels like an odd way to brand it though, especially with the market penetration + built up institutional knowledge of slides' UI.

parent graypegg 2 years ago

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