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Slack, Zoom, TikTok And those are just off the top of my head
by AbstractH24 2y ago
Slack, Zoom, TikTok
And those are just off the top of my head
- robenkleene 2y agoThose all predate 2017: - Slack: 2013 - Zoom: 2011 - TikTok: 2016 Based on "Initial Release" on Wikipedia.
- singpolyma3 2y agoNeither slack nor zoom did anything new or interesting. Just a clone of stable tech that worked out in marketing
- baby_souffle 2y agoMaybe they didn't have innovative functionality initially but the user experience was certainly better. Microsoft fumbled Skype and nobody was putting together convenient apis on top of IRC...
- entropicdrifter 2y agoRight, so iterations that ate up the old-school competition, not revolutions
- brookst 2y agoWhat was the last major tech company that was a revolution and not mere iteration?
- samrus 2y agoMaybe Netflix?
- brookst 2y agoThat’s a good one. Which suggests Amazon as well; similar revolution in distribution and scale. But there were companies shipping DVDs before Netflix, and also companies streaming movies online before them. So really a marketing / operations / distribution revolution.
- entropicdrifter 2y agoNetflix and Amazon were the first to effectively scale their revolutions up to mainstream accessibility that made them clearly superior to the competition. You could say they brought already-simmering revolutions to boil. Google was initially revolutionary just because their search engine actually worked incredibly well back before people started trying to game their rankings
- zombiwoof 2y agoSlack was skype
- kulahan 2y agoAbsolutely not. Skype figured out how to build an integrated login experience. Every morning using slack I keep having to remind myself it’s not early FOSS!