Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying

Re:Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, includi... by skinnymuch on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:33PM (#23558858)

No other company right now can get the reliability and “just works” like Zoom. If they open source everything, why wouldn’t all the competitors including the biggest companies in the world not start seeing how Zoom is doing things. We already see open source “borrowed” frequently. Amazon’s AWS being a regular.

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Re:Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, includi... by inetknght on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:37AM (#23562960)

> No other company right now can get the reliability and “just works” like Zoom.

I disagree. Plenty of video chat software has comparable reliability and "just works"-ity.

Google Meet, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Discord...

Hell, Apple has had "just works" and "reliability" in their walled garden since FaceTime was introduced -- if you're willing to look only in their walled garden.

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Re:Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, includi... by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday June 18, 2020 @02:22PM (#23565996)

I haven't tried discord, but all of the other tools that you mention are materially worse than Zoom, in my experience.

Zoom is almost as good on a laptop as dedicated Cisco gear.

I have been video conferencing mostly for work for almost a decade, and Zoom is the best solution for that that I've encountered.

I recently changed roles, and the use of Zoom was a small reason to go with the company I did.

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