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Why do you think zoom got popular?
by adhvaryu 3y ago
Why do you think zoom got popular?
- janandonly 3y agoFor one thing: more than 120000 congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide started paying for a Zoom account in early 2020. As far as I know, most of these congregations still pay for Zoom accounts until now.
- vxNsr 3y agointerestingly, they probably all qualify for NFP grants that could significantly reduce their costs
- Spooky23 3y agoZoom is basically a respin of WebEx. Teams is a bunch of modules bolted on to SharePoint and Exchange. A “team” is an exchange artifact, the voice and video is a module and the rest is a SharePoint front end. Zoom is a better value if you need features beyond the base teams. You pay a simple fee and get the whole shebang. With Teams, you may need different SKUs, including Azure AD, etc to get the full feature set. It’s a funnel to E5.
- nicoburns 3y agoZoom got popular by being technically superior (better call quality) during a pandemic when the entire world suddenly needed video conferencing.
- SmarsJerry 3y agoCall quality was not the factor. It was that zoom was easy for people to use, no download required, just click a link and enter your name and you’re connected. No logins or downloads so old people could actually work with it.
- johannes1234321 3y agoI never used the zoom web version, but for the client: it simply worked. Getting videocalls with WebEx always was a pain, where it was noisy, video hat issues ... switching to Zoom was day and night. Suddenly doing a video call was a click and it worked.