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Off-topic, but how did zoom become the Kleenex of video-conferencing apps? I’ve been doing a lot of video-conferencing, but haven’t used zoom. Is it the best on

Off-topic, but how did zoom become the Kleenex of video-conferencing apps? I’ve been doing a lot of video-conferencing, but haven’t used zoom. Is it the best one, or is there some other explanation?

Karunamon 7y ago
Better performance and UI than the others. I work in an environment where I use just about every major video conferencing tool available when working with customers. We use Zoom internally, some customers are on Webex, still others use Hangouts. Webex has been having difficulties ever since the mass exodus to work-from-home. Audio quality especially has been inconsistent over the last few weeks. Hangouts is pretty good from a quality standpoint, but I (and others, apparently) find their UI confusing. I've never been asked yet to use Jitsi or any of the other also-rans.
- GordonS 7y ago
  I use webex multiple times, every day of the week, and audio, video and scree sharing. Maybe it depends on your timezone, but I honestly haven't noticed any issues at all with webex. One of my colleagues was complaining about it the other day - I asked if he was connected to the company VPN, and sure enough, he was. Once he disconnected, he said webex was back to normal again. Like many others, our company has had to quickly buy a lot more VPN licenses, and is finding out it doesn't have the bandwidth to service everyone using the VPN.
- ben7799 7y ago
  Interesting. I've been using Webex, Zoom, and Slack calls. Webex has been having some issues but has done better the last few days. Zoom has been OK, but with some audio cutouts yesterday. The one Hangout I was on the video and audio quality was horrible. Teams seemed to use tons of video bandwidth, looked good, sounded good, but seemed to use excessive network bandwidth. It's video quality actually seemed excessive for a lot of use cases.
nemonemo 7y ago
It has good usability, and not much trouble in video conferencing. No nonsense. Plus it has a catchy name: Compare "Google Meet" or "Microsoft teams" vs "Zoom".
BiteCode_dev 7y ago
The setup is easy and the video works very well, including with many participants. That's it. There is nothing else. They managed to do one thing well. This thing that skype used to do correctly but now don't. This thing that no other free softwares seems to be able to manage correctly either. Not teams. Not hangout. Not Jitsi or BBB. It makes you think.
gambiting 7y ago
Has it? I've literally only heard about it today because of an article posted here. Is it just a bubble effect going on?
PeterisP 7y ago
Some others buckled under the load. Our organization had plans to use Microsoft Teams, the first time we needed multiple mass meetings at the same time, it didn't work for whatever reason, so the organizers sent out a Zoom link and that worked then and there. So we've been using Zoom instead since that.
amelius 7y ago
Isn't video-conferencing a commodity by now, given that we have Web-RTC implementations for a while now?

Karunamon 7y ago

Better performance and UI than the others. I work in an environment where I use just about every major video conferencing tool available when working with customers. We use Zoom internally, some customers are on Webex, still others use Hangouts. Webex has been having difficulties ever since the mass exodus to work-from-home. Audio quality especially has been inconsistent over the last few weeks. Hangouts is pretty good from a quality standpoint, but I (and others, apparently) find their UI confusing. I've never been asked yet to use Jitsi or any of the other also-rans.

GordonS 7y ago
I use webex multiple times, every day of the week, and audio, video and scree sharing. Maybe it depends on your timezone, but I honestly haven't noticed any issues at all with webex. One of my colleagues was complaining about it the other day - I asked if he was connected to the company VPN, and sure enough, he was. Once he disconnected, he said webex was back to normal again. Like many others, our company has had to quickly buy a lot more VPN licenses, and is finding out it doesn't have the bandwidth to service everyone using the VPN.
ben7799 7y ago
Interesting. I've been using Webex, Zoom, and Slack calls. Webex has been having some issues but has done better the last few days. Zoom has been OK, but with some audio cutouts yesterday. The one Hangout I was on the video and audio quality was horrible. Teams seemed to use tons of video bandwidth, looked good, sounded good, but seemed to use excessive network bandwidth. It's video quality actually seemed excessive for a lot of use cases.

nemonemo 7y ago

It has good usability, and not much trouble in video conferencing. No nonsense. Plus it has a catchy name: Compare "Google Meet" or "Microsoft teams" vs "Zoom".

BiteCode_dev 7y ago

The setup is easy and the video works very well, including with many participants. That's it. There is nothing else. They managed to do one thing well. This thing that skype used to do correctly but now don't. This thing that no other free softwares seems to be able to manage correctly either. Not teams. Not hangout. Not Jitsi or BBB. It makes you think.

gambiting 7y ago

Has it? I've literally only heard about it today because of an article posted here. Is it just a bubble effect going on?

PeterisP 7y ago

Some others buckled under the load. Our organization had plans to use Microsoft Teams, the first time we needed multiple mass meetings at the same time, it didn't work for whatever reason, so the organizers sent out a Zoom link and that worked then and there. So we've been using Zoom instead since that.

amelius 7y ago

Isn't video-conferencing a commodity by now, given that we have Web-RTC implementations for a while now?