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I've never heard of the Zoom app until about three weeks ago and now I'm reading something about it here on HN almost every day. Why is this company and their
by W-Stool 7y ago
I've never heard of the Zoom app until about three weeks ago and now I'm reading something about it here on HN almost every day. Why is this company and their app suddenly so popular and so critiqued? I thought the world was Skype, FaceTime, WebEx, that whole cluster of technologies and related applications. Why are the Zoom folks suddenly on the front page everywher?
- xyproto 7y agoThe ongoing pandemic increses the need for online conversations with 100+ people.
- twic 7y agoWebEx is terrible, FaceTime is Apple-only, Skype is circling the drain since being bought by Microsoft, so there is a lot of pent-up demand for a good cross-platform videoconferencing tool. Zoom is one of the front-runners. There is a good overview of the options in an article recently posted here - see under "Videoconferencing": https://apenwarr.ca/log/20200309 https://apenwarr.ca/log/20200309