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Whoa. $WORK already up +22% on the day due to this news: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WORK https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WORK

• Tiktaalik 6y ago
  As an aside just talking bout WORK performance during this huge shift to WFH, it's been wild to seem ZOOM go wild this pandemic, while WORK stagnated. I wouldn't have expected that.
  • cutenewt 6y ago
    Zoom is a must have during the pandemic Slack has many alternatives including using email
    • scottmcleod 6y ago
      Lol what... WebEx, Cisco, Meet etc etc... Lot of alternatives.
      • cutenewt 6y ago
        I used WebEx and Google Meet the last 5 days. They're alternatives, but they are far from being usable alternatives.
        • cmdshiftf4 6y ago
          >They're alternatives, but they are far from being usable alternatives. It has to be comments like this that drove someone to create n-gate. WebEx had 324,000,000 users running 73,000,000 meetings in March of this year [0]. As of April, Meet was adding 3,000,000 users per day with 100,000,000 users attending meets per day. [1] You're obviously right though, they're clearly utterly unusable. [0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cisco-systems-webex-idUSKBN21L2SY https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cisco-systems-webex-idUSK... [1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/28/21240434/google-meet-three-million-users-per-day-pichai-earnings https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/28/21240434/google-meet-thre...
          • skinnymuch 6y ago
            Those are pretty old dates considering how much has changed with the pandemic. It’s also possible for something to have many users and have them casually brought up as unusable. The OP doesn’t literally mean unusable. They are exaggerating for effect.
            • cmdshiftf4 6y ago
              To be fair, they said far from being usable. I would support a more tame comparison for dramatic effect, but this is verging on a literal claim which isn't supported by virtually anything.
  • akamaka 6y ago
    Somehow Zoom made the jump to being a consumer brand because of the pandemic. I never expected it either, since I had only seen it used in the corporate world up to that point.
    • Wowfunhappy 6y ago
      > Somehow Zoom made the jump to being a consumer brand because of the pandemic Because of the same qualities that made it successful in the corporate world! • Zoom is for one thing—it doesn't try to also sell you on a new service for managing documents, calendars, or VR bitcoins. • Zoom is extremely easy for new users to set up and quickly enter a video call. It works even on very old hardware and operating systems. • Zoom's audio quality is unmatched in calls with lots of participants. It's relatively adept at dealing with poor network quality and audio equipment. I really think there's a lot of lessons here for other companies.
      • BHSPitMonkey 6y ago
        > Zoom is for one thing—it doesn't try to also sell you on a new service for managing documents, calendars, or VR bitcoins. Ah, I see you haven't been following the recent updates (in which Zoom wants to gradually try to replace Slack and become your default client for your calendar and third-party integrations)
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  • paxys 6y ago
    Zoom is general purpose software. My grandma was using it every day during lockdown. Their valuation is based on a lot more than the corporate use case, which Slack doesn't have.
    • Tiktaalik 6y ago
      Yeah that's what I figure too. Very quick to dash into a zoom chat with friends or random business connections. I mean I think Slack uptake would benefit companies that have been forced into WFH, but shrug maybe that's not happening or doesn't seem like that's moved the needle on the stock price.
      • paxys 6y ago
        I think it is happening to some extent, but (1) they have a lot of competition from Microsoft Teams and (2) the total size of the workplace text-based group chat market is a lot smaller than...basically all human communication.