Re:Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people
by time_to_smile on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @11:59AM
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Zoom is probably here to stay but won't achieve dominance as the standard for video meetings the way I think investors speculated early pandemic.
Pre-pandemic almost no remote companies that I knew used Zoom. It was almost exclusively google meet with a few use of other, lesser well known services. Zoom did some great early pandemic marketing and was able to quickly capture market share, especially in the "meeting with a 1000 attendees") type calls. I've known plenty of teams that switched of zoom into other platforms relatively quickly. I suspect that zoom will replace Oracle's webex and similar products for "business meetings" but will not achieve dominance in day to day meeting space.
People already have solutions for the majority of their video chat needs:
- small office meetings: Google meet/slack video
- family calls: FaceTime (or equivalent)
- socialization: Discord
I suspect Discord will grow a bit as younger people enter the work force. Since they've optimized around gaming/livestreaming their screen sharing video is remarkably more crisp than either Google or Zoom.
Pre-pandemic almost no remote companies that I knew used Zoom. It was almost exclusively google meet with a few use of other, lesser well known services. Zoom did some great early pandemic marketing and was able to quickly capture market share, especially in the "meeting with a 1000 attendees") type calls. I've known plenty of teams that switched of zoom into other platforms relatively quickly. I suspect that zoom will replace Oracle's webex and similar products for "business meetings" but will not achieve dominance in day to day meeting space.
People already have solutions for the majority of their video chat needs:
- small office meetings: Google meet/slack video - family calls: FaceTime (or equivalent) - socialization: Discord
I suspect Discord will grow a bit as younger people enter the work force. Since they've optimized around gaming/livestreaming their screen sharing video is remarkably more crisp than either Google or Zoom.