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The explanation for their popularity is that it isn't a constant struggle to use zoom for meetings. Their software may have other problems, but people can run i
by netflixandkill 7y ago
The explanation for their popularity is that it isn't a constant struggle to use zoom for meetings. Their software may have other problems, but people can run it and get into a meeting with minimal effort.
Yesterday by comparison half the people on a Skype meeting had to dial into an audio bridge with their cell phones because their computer audio didn't work for no fucking reason, and screen sharing kept lagging unless restarted every so often.
The good marketing for zoom is that webex is awful.
- Loughla 7y ago>The good marketing for zoom is that webex is awful. 100% this. We switched to zoom as stay home orders came out. And only because it worked 100% every time, with little to no fiddling. The non-tech literate employees at my place are patting themselves on the back for being able to set up and host a zoom meeting. Because it's one button. And that's why they're used so much. They are the literal definition of it just works. People aren't worried about anything else right now.
- dexterdog 7y agoI would never call them "just works." I had it completely lock up my macbook (no mouse movement or anything until it finally black screened) on joining a conference this afternoon. No program has done that to me in the past year.