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Re:The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontin... by imurray on Thursday February 20, 2025 @09:18AM (#43114916)
Every product has its hate, but everyone is rarely true. Personally (no longer at Amazon) I was impressed by Chime. It was simple, but rock solid, handling large calls well. Teams is still worse for me (>9 people display is bad, even in MS Edge, when on Linux). Zoom has a finicky interface.

Early in the pandemic I had to use many different systems as an academic, when lots of different contacts pivoted online in different ways. Chime was the least of my problems; it just worked when many other systems struggled.

I liked the Chime meeting/calendar integration at Amazon that could ring everyone at the start of the meeting, meaning that most meetings started promptly.

Re:The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontin... by scarface_74 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @11:05AM (#43116355)
I was also at Amazon (AWS ProServe) we also hated Chime. AWS internally moved to Slack and only used Chime to schedule customer calls.
Re:The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontin... by dowager_dan99 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @02:15PM (#43118854)
that's pretty funny. I had no idea Amazon had their own product in this space until my company did an engagement with ProServe.