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It is not like no one ever came up with video chatting before and they are the only ones around so the moat is moot. The only reasons they exist in any meanin
by tejtm 6y ago
It is not like no one ever came up with video chatting before and they are the only ones around so the moat is moot.
The only reasons they exist in any meaningful way starts the "just works" thing and ends with the "vhs v.s betamax" thing.
For the business model, it is the same as other OS,
there are companies that want a tech insurance policy.
- skinnymuch 6y agoNo other company right now can get the reliability and “just works” like Zoom. If they open source everything, why wouldn’t all the competitors including the biggest companies in the world not start seeing how Zoom is doing things. We already see open source “borrowed” frequently. Amazon’s AWS being a regular.
- inetknght 6y ago> No other company right now can get the reliability and “just works” like Zoom. I disagree. Plenty of video chat software has comparable reliability and "just works"-ity. Google Meet, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Discord... Hell, Apple has had "just works" and "reliability" in their walled garden since FaceTime was introduced -- if you're willing to look only in their walled garden.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoI haven't tried discord, but all of the other tools that you mention are materially worse than Zoom, in my experience. Zoom is almost as good on a laptop as dedicated Cisco gear. I have been video conferencing mostly for work for almost a decade, and Zoom is the best solution for that that I've encountered. I recently changed roles, and the use of Zoom was a small reason to go with the company I did.