Zoom was always fishy to me. When covid hit, everyone required virtual meetings and boom, out of nowhere zoom became a thing. Not even google meet or microsoft teams, it was some random company
Zoom existed since 2013 and was built by an ex.cisco engineer who wanted a better ui for webex but got stonewalled. It just rode the wave of the first apps on iphones.
It exploded during covid because it could scale faster than on-premise and was easier to use with better sound/video quality.
It could have been Skype, but Microsoft ran that into the ground years before.
Right time, right tech, right place. Nothing sinister.
Yeah zoom succeeded in COVID because of its incredibly low bar of entry. You only needed an account as host, anyone could join. Google meet had just removed that feature right before COVID hit (very very smart move Google), and so it became the standard for families and small business. Then since Dave in accounting used Zoom at home he just started using it for work, and it took over.
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Sophocles@infosec.pub · 13 pts · 303d
Zoom was always fishy to me. When covid hit, everyone required virtual meetings and boom, out of nowhere zoom became a thing. Not even google meet or microsoft teams, it was some random company
jagermo@feddit.org · 20 pts · 302d
Zoom existed since 2013 and was built by an ex.cisco engineer who wanted a better ui for webex but got stonewalled. It just rode the wave of the first apps on iphones.
It exploded during covid because it could scale faster than on-premise and was easier to use with better sound/video quality.
It could have been Skype, but Microsoft ran that into the ground years before.
Right time, right tech, right place. Nothing sinister.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 6 pts · 302d
Yeah zoom succeeded in COVID because of its incredibly low bar of entry. You only needed an account as host, anyone could join. Google meet had just removed that feature right before COVID hit (very very smart move Google), and so it became the standard for families and small business. Then since Dave in accounting used Zoom at home he just started using it for work, and it took over.
Sophocles@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 302d
Very interesting, thanks for the context
jagermo@feddit.org · 2 pts · 302d
Wired did a good writeup in 2020
devolution@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 303d
Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 303d
Ah, the privacy invasion is indeed the devil. I wish more folks cottoned on to Jitsi.
galacticwaffle@lemmings.world · -12 pts · 303d
kishkebab@lemmings.world · 12 pts · 303d
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