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Well, good questions, but how is it that we’ve had 20+ years of video conferencing over the internet and most solutions are total crap? Product management is a
by arcturus17 8y ago
Well, good questions, but how is it that we’ve had 20+ years of video conferencing over the internet and most solutions are total crap?
Product management is a fine art... Maybe Microsoft and Google will manage to catch up, maybe in trying so they’ll dig themselves further into a hole...
- lancewiggs 8y agoI suspect because most are free. Pay for something good that just works. Zoom has taken my custom and money for years.
- kristianc 8y ago> I suspect because most are free. Pay for something good that just works. Zoom has taken my custom and money for years. WebEx and GoTo charge (quite a lot), and both are seriously ropey.
- Octoth0rpe 8y agoBecause imo, the decision of which video conferencing solution to pay for is rarely made on the basis of the quality of the software, at least in the corporate world. Cisco and Ms have very effective sales teams selling WebEx and Skype as bundled add ons to ip phone systems and windows site licenses. The fact that they're both complete garbage is never considered.
- raverbashing 8y agoAtt some point it is "free" or bundled with some offers
- yasth 8y agoNot so much the windows site licenses as their office ones but yes. For anyone running office 365, base teams/skype conferencing is free and adding on call in lines and the rest is generally just a matter of ticking boxes and won't require purchase approval or the rest. People tend to underestimate just how different it is at most companies to modify/increase an existing agreement vs. setting up a new one.