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Saw your comment too late and already made my own ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13641706 ). I'm wondering what your CPU usage looks like in Zoom sessions when just participating vs. when you're sharing your screen.
Sharing screen with Zoom takes a decent amount of CPU, compared to just talking, which eats only about 5-10% from my experience.
Which platform and hardware are you on?
Enterprise conferencing software is so bad and so expensive I'm astonished it took this long for a decent competitor to come in. I'm really surprised Google didn't go all in with making Hangouts a decent competitor. I have a feeling this will make a lot of money.
Zoom seems to be a lot better for pricing. At a company of 12 people, our GoToMeeting bill was $15,000/yr. But uhh, call-in rates of 1c/min/participant? That's going to add up. We would regularly have meetings of two hour duration (programming, planning) with up to six-eight attending is a $10 meeting in itself. Chicken feed compared to salaries but I could easily see pricing of up to $1k/mo with this. Shame.
Am curious how? I think it's like max $50 a person/month, and that's only for huge meetings.
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Most place I've worked, we'd waste anywhere from 5-10 minutes at the beginning of every meeting just trying to get A/V systems and voice conferencing to work. "Anyone there? Hello? Crap, someone needs to dial in as the host. OK Is everyone dialed in? Good. Oh, wait, Roger can't hear us. Roger, dial back in. OK. Hey, whoever is at the cocktail party, can you go on mute?? Thank you. All right. Who's projecting? The pro…
What you need there then (if you are a Windows shop - unlikely), is Lync or Skype for Business. Despite it being Microsoft, I've found it to be the most reliable and seamless system for multi-party Audio, Video, and Screen-sharing based meetings - and I've used at some time or another in my career almost all the other big hitters in the corporate virtual-conferencing space. Combine Lync/SfB with one of those nice mul…
I've used that, and experienced comparable delays of at least 5 minutes of futzing on average to get everything working, with occasional bursts to 10 minutes.
Are they competing with WebEx, Skype, or Slack? Looks like a compelling B2B offering from Amazon. I bet they'll have an accompanying hardware to go with this in the coming months.
I really do not like conference systems which do not work on Linux. Not everybody is using a Mac or Windows. Microsoft is also ignoring Skype and Skype for Business on Linux. This is all crap.
It looks like they support a web client for use on Linux for viewing meetings, at least. https://answers.chime.aws/articles/17/supported-operating-sy...
WebEx is literally the only reason I even start up a Windows VM at work.
Everything else aside, I am surprised/impressed to see that Amazon has the '.aws' top level domain! Does that mean they will be now branding all their AWS infrastructure under this domain?
DNS should not degrade into AOL keywords!
Their claim of "a third of the cost of traditional solutions" is an apples and oranges comparison. The basic and plus pricing options, while cheap, are practically useless with only 2 maximum attendees and the $15/user/month pro plan is hardly "a third of the cost...". Looks like a great product with an average price point.