Zoom Now Worth More Than the World’s 7 Biggest Airlines

Re:Zoom Now Worth More Than the World’s 7 Biggest Airlines by aphextron on Sunday May 17, 2020 @01:54AM (#23209899)

>"All the enterprise software companies include video meetings in their bundles, why would you pay extra for Zoom?"

Network effect.

Zoom adoption has reached critical mass. Why does anyone pay for Slack when IRC is free? It's what everyone else is doing.

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Re:Zoom Now Worth More Than the World’s 7 Biggest Airlines by Exmoor on Sunday May 17, 2020 @02:02AM (#23209927)

The network effect cuts both ways here. Why pay extra for Zoom when you are already invested in Office 365? The ability to invite external participants to join a call via web browser limits the friction getting people to join calls on unfamiliar systems.

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Re:Zoom Now Worth More Than the World’s 7 Biggest Airlines by vinni2 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @02:27AM (#23210020)

You can also invite external participants via browser in Teams. Only downside of Teams is that it only shows 4 recent speakers’ video feed.

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