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They're late to the party. The canapes have been consumed, the beer has been drunk and everyone's down to that miscellaneous yellow dip and the leftover breads

They're late to the party. The canapes have been consumed, the beer has been drunk and everyone's down to that miscellaneous yellow dip and the leftover breadsticks. Zoom has won, Google, with Teams coming in a respectable 2nd place. No-one's got any reason to use your product.

pibefision 6y ago
Teams is growing fast, even being late to the party after Slack. If Meet really works well, they could grow quickly.
corentin88 6y ago
This party is slippering. But the neighbors are partying as well. And they have way more beers. Google Meet is late indeed, but might gives some peps. It’s already a crowdy market - you forget to mention Messenger as well as some startups. Zoom has taken the lion’s part - apparently - but that’s very fragile share. Users jump from one service to another for many reasons (network issue, I’m used to X, let’s try Y, etc.) Only the ones with the more beers will be able to stay.
jsnell 6y ago
All three of those platforms have released some numbers recently, and both the usage and the growth rate of the usage seems pretty comparable. All of the following quotes are from during April: One of them says: > Since January, we’ve seen $SOFTWARE’s peak daily usage grow by 30x. As of this month, $SOFTWARE is hosting 3 billion minutes of video meetings and adding roughly 3 million new users every day. And as of last week, $SOFTWARE’s daily meeting participants surpassed 100 million. Another: > We’ve seen a new daily record of 2.7 billion meeting minutes in one day, a 200 percent increase from 900 million on March 16. [...] We’ve also seen total video calls in $SOFTWARE grow by over 1,000 percent in the month of March And the final one: > The maximum number of daily meeting participants, both free and paid, conducted on $SOFTWARE was approximately 10 million. In March this year, we reached more than 200 million daily meeting participants, both free and paid. The quotes are not from the same time during April, and are not directly comparable in that sense. But if we're talking about the three options being a month apart on an exponential growth curve, it seems premature to call winners.
disillusioned 6y ago
Google Meet has 100M daily active users... and they're adding 3 million users a day. I don't... think the party is over. Those of us using GSuite appreciate not having to also pay for Zoom, and use it religiously. And its conference room hardware is nice, too. Plus, it's tightly integrated into Google Calendar.
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ProZsolt 6y ago
Yes, Zoom won this battle, as Slack had won the first battle for chat, but they have to stay ahead of everyone else. Every company has Google or Microsoft suite for e-mail and for office stuff. If Zoom and Slack don't stay significantly better, the beancounters will happily cut them out, because Meet and Teams are "free".
perennate 6y ago
I tried using Zoom's web UI yesterday and it is a disaster. Audio doesn't work at all in Firefox without an extension/plugin, and even in Chromium halfway through a meeting the audio just cut out without any warning message and didn't work until I reloaded the web page. Even Jitsi is not as hard to use as Zoom (Jitsi warns you that Firefox isn't supported, but at least it still works fine). Zoom's terrible UI and user experience is going to push people to other services. And no I'm not installing a desktop app from a shady company on my computer.

pibefision 6y ago

Teams is growing fast, even being late to the party after Slack. If Meet really works well, they could grow quickly.

corentin88 6y ago

This party is slippering. But the neighbors are partying as well. And they have way more beers. Google Meet is late indeed, but might gives some peps. It’s already a crowdy market - you forget to mention Messenger as well as some startups. Zoom has taken the lion’s part - apparently - but that’s very fragile share. Users jump from one service to another for many reasons (network issue, I’m used to X, let’s try Y, etc.) Only the ones with the more beers will be able to stay.

jsnell 6y ago

All three of those platforms have released some numbers recently, and both the usage and the growth rate of the usage seems pretty comparable. All of the following quotes are from during April: One of them says: > Since January, we’ve seen $SOFTWARE’s peak daily usage grow by 30x. As of this month, $SOFTWARE is hosting 3 billion minutes of video meetings and adding roughly 3 million new users every day. And as of last week, $SOFTWARE’s daily meeting participants surpassed 100 million. Another: > We’ve seen a new daily record of 2.7 billion meeting minutes in one day, a 200 percent increase from 900 million on March 16. [...] We’ve also seen total video calls in $SOFTWARE grow by over 1,000 percent in the month of March And the final one: > The maximum number of daily meeting participants, both free and paid, conducted on $SOFTWARE was approximately 10 million. In March this year, we reached more than 200 million daily meeting participants, both free and paid. The quotes are not from the same time during April, and are not directly comparable in that sense. But if we're talking about the three options being a month apart on an exponential growth curve, it seems premature to call winners.

disillusioned 6y ago

Google Meet has 100M daily active users... and they're adding 3 million users a day. I don't... think the party is over. Those of us using GSuite appreciate not having to also pay for Zoom, and use it religiously. And its conference room hardware is nice, too. Plus, it's tightly integrated into Google Calendar.

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ProZsolt 6y ago

Yes, Zoom won this battle, as Slack had won the first battle for chat, but they have to stay ahead of everyone else. Every company has Google or Microsoft suite for e-mail and for office stuff. If Zoom and Slack don't stay significantly better, the beancounters will happily cut them out, because Meet and Teams are "free".

perennate 6y ago

I tried using Zoom's web UI yesterday and it is a disaster. Audio doesn't work at all in Firefox without an extension/plugin, and even in Chromium halfway through a meeting the audio just cut out without any warning message and didn't work until I reloaded the web page. Even Jitsi is not as hard to use as Zoom (Jitsi warns you that Firefox isn't supported, but at least it still works fine). Zoom's terrible UI and user experience is going to push people to other services. And no I'm not installing a desktop app from a shady company on my computer.