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Most of them probably have their IT team's preferred enterprise vendor's teleconferencing system set up as the exclusive videoconferencing tool long before Zoom
by notahacker 6y ago
Most of them probably have their IT team's preferred enterprise vendor's teleconferencing system set up as the exclusive videoconferencing tool long before Zoom became flavour of the month...
Also, their employees probably have smartphones.
- reaperducer 6y agoA six-year-old student is not an employee.
- notahacker 6y agoA six year old student also isn't someone who's at risk of losing a business deal because they can't get their IT team to let them install one of the client's suggested alternative webconferencing systems to do the demo at a particular point in time. Of the many potential problems six year olds accessing education primarily through webconferencing may face, I'm not sure inability to choose their own preferred videoconferencing service is high up the list, and I doubt Zoom servers have more outages than their home internet and wifi...
- tingletech 6y agoI think the discussion is "what happens when zoom goes down?" -- and the college professor said "use blackboard". A first grader with a locked down computer set up for zoom won't be able to install blackboard.
- sukilot 6y agoInstall? It's a website.
- kiwijamo 6y agoBeen years since I used it, but it doesn't have video conferencing functions does it? (Honest question).
- notahacker 6y agoHow many kids are missing how many minutes of education from their parents and teachers being unable to find any digital devices with the ability to access webconferencing services other than Zoom? Periodically losing connectivity is an occupational hazard of doing things with webconferencing made worse if the people at each end aren't particularly computer literate. But I'm not sure Zoom lockin ranks high on the list of threats to kids' education right now.
- tingletech 6y agoidk, but isn't that the article was about, zoom going down like it did for lots of schools last week?
- notahacker 6y agoSure, but the article has somehow turned that into us being more dependent on Zoom than mobile networks and banks. And the reality is Zoom is much easier to switch away from if and when its outages are more than temporary inconveniences.
- sukilot 6y agoZoom has definitely had more outages this year than most people's home wifi/Internet access.
- k8skil0 6y agoIf a business lets IT policy get in the way of it’s important business, it a terribly managed business. Look elsewhere for work of this is your actual existence. If this is just some off the cuff anecdote, meh. Stick to real problems not made up ones thanks to hands off clueless management edge cases