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

Re:Zoom Now Worth More Than the World’s 7 Biggest Airlines by swiley on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:45AM (#23210638)

Honestly I’ve used a dozen different conference call apps in the past few months and they all _work_. I still don’t get why zoom is popular, on Linux they want me to install a browser extension just to join a call which is unacceptable when we have webrtc already.

IMO it’s one of those situations where some software becomes popular for reasons (marketing? Network effects?) and people just use it because it’s there. No one can shop for software and that’s why we need open protocols.

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Re:Zoom Now Worth More Than the World’s 7 Biggest Airlines by jjeaff on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:16AM (#23218276)

If you think webrtc is a replacement for zoom, then I don't think you have seen what many people are using zoom for. I am unaware of any webrtc implementation that can handle 100 people on a video call. Much less 1,000 or 5,000.

Once you get passed a dozen or so video call users in the same meeting, your options diminish quite a bit. I'm not saying zoom is the only option, but there aren't just tons of easy to use options that do that well.

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