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• hn_throwaway_99 7y ago
  I'm curious why Chime, which arrived with great fanfare, never really took off. I've been on conf calls with lots of different corporate customers, and as such have had to use lots of different clients (Zoom, Skype for Business, Google Meet, Bluejeans, etc.) but never once have I had a customer use Chime.
  • dangwu 7y ago
    Amazon uses Chime internally. It gets the job done, but the UX is garbage compared to Slack.
    • late2part 7y ago
      I suspect they could fix it, but Jeff, Andy, and Barr all think it's good enough and noone cares about UI. Look at Amazon and AWS's web page...
    • rubiquity 7y ago
      I love Chime. It reminds me of Campfire/Propane with the ability to do calls, video, and screen sharing. I used Slack for a while before joining Amazon and I don’t miss it or the culture around its use at all.
  • 1123581321 7y ago
    We had one vendor use it. The UX is not good and call quality is just okay. I think it isn’t adopted more often because organizations that want to use something new choose way better options and everyone else is afraid to choose anything unproven/weird or already has established accounts with something else. And it really doesn’t help that Chime sort of looks like an AWS service instead of a consumer product.
  • Spooky23 7y ago
    It’s a crowded market. Skype for B is free. People tend to graduate into Zoom these days.