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Maybe I'm nuts, but I see almost zero appreciable difference between any of the most common chat or video conference platforms. They all have some little quirks
by tootie 4y ago
Maybe I'm nuts, but I see almost zero appreciable difference between any of the most common chat or video conference platforms. They all have some little quirks or bonus features, but 99% of the time I'm only using the core features that they all do the same. Slack is absurdly expensive for what it does. Slack Pro is $12.50/person/mo. It's the same price for O365 which includes chat, video and the entire Office suite.
- yamtaddle 4y agoNah, Zoom was wildly better than other options at first, but the rest these days are mostly OK enough to handle most day-to-day needs. And yeah, chat apps are pretty similar. ... except Teams, which manages to be possibly the single most confusing piece of software I've ever used. And I like Paradox games....
- bombcar 4y agoZoom was amazingly batshit better than the competition (mainly gotomeeting) for actual conference calls because of how easy it was for someone who had never used it to start (which we later learned was because Zoom was pulling all sorts of clever bullshit to avoid installation dialogs). Once you're past the onboarding/installation hurdle, they all start to blend together.
- yamtaddle 4y agoQuality (especially audio) and some other features were a lot better and (crucially) more reliable in the early days, too. But yeah, the light-ish touch installation (which, yeah, because of some bullshit) and single-purpose nature of it made it way less unpleasant to use if someone was like "let's Zoom" and you didn't have it. "We'll call you on Teams" (or any of these other huge do-everything tools) is a much bigger pain in the ass if you don't already have the thing they're going to call you on.
- tootie 4y agoWebEx used to own this market and is still going pretty strong. Ironically, WebEx has one really good feature that Zoom doesn't which is that you can actually zoom on a screenshare.
- boring_twenties 4y agoI seem to be able to zoom in on screenshares in the windows, ios and android Zoom clients.
- iso1631 4y ago> Slack Pro is $12.50/person/mo. It's the same price for O365 which includes chat, video and the entire Office suite. And how much is a junior engineer per month in a small European company, let alone a senior one in a FAANG?
- tootie 4y agoIf you're google, Microsoft of Amazon it's moot because you're eating your own dogfood. But regardless I think it's a myth to think that because a company has a lot of profit they won't pinch pennies. Every team has to aggressively manage their budget. If you have 40k employees then $5/mo adds up pretty fast.
- dmonitor 4y agoDiscord must be kicking themselves for going after the gamer market instead of offering a professional platform. It beats pretty much every other video conferencing app I've used.