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An important Zoom feature is that you can dial in from a regular cell phone / landline and conference phones. That's one of the selling points of Zoom.
by dewey 7y ago
An important Zoom feature is that you can dial in from a regular cell phone / landline and conference phones. That's one of the selling points of Zoom.
- antoncohen 7y agoBut when joining a Zoom call from your phone you dial a number, then enter the meeting ID. The meeting ID has the same number of digits as a US phone number, but it isn't the number you dial. The calendar invites generated by Zoom format the number + meeting ID in such as way that a user can tap them and it will dial the number and enter the meeting ID. Basically, in both cases (computer/app or dial-in), increasing the number of digits of the meeting ID has very little impact on the users. Forcing a user to enter a password after joining (which is just more digits) does impact the user.
- kube-system 7y ago>Basically, in both cases (computer/app or dial-in), increasing the number of digits of the meeting ID has very little impact on the users. It is a frequent use-case that people join meetings from devices that are not running a calendar application, or the calendar does not have the meeting invite. For example: conference rooms.
- sasper 7y agoThe one-tap feature only works on iOS (<15% of cellphone market), although I would assume that it's higher in the enterprise space. There are also conference room telephony systems where there is no one-click solution.