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Re: Amazon Chime

#342

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.

Best thing about Hangouts: it was rock solid and bulletproof at first, despite the clunky UI (and weird plugin system). Somewhere along the road, they removed all the crap UI, and in the process: - it became more unreliable (F5 to get sound working) - it introduced crazy bugs (says your muted, but not really!) - it remained software accelerated on mac so it kills the batt

Re: Amazon Chime

#343

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Lync is still buggy? I haven't used it in about two years, but I'd have thought Microsoft would have solved those issues by now.

Anecdotal, but I use Skype for Business every day without any bugs/issues, as does the rest of my company (~50 people, lots of remote workers + liberal WFH policy). When there's a rare issue, its usually a headset not working, which is probably more a user or windows problem.

I don't see a lot of audio issues, but tons of problems with screen sharing and video.

My company has about 4000 users in 100+ countries so maybe it's bandwidth/scale in part. i see a lot of stuff like skypefb crashes or doesn't render correctly when you try to screen share, etc especially internationally.

Not 100% certain part of it isn't due to us cheaping out on infrastructure to run it.

Re: Amazon Chime

#344

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It's like Slack's "smart" quotes feature that mangles your ascii quotes out of the box! So frustrating!

If you are on OSX, that is a feature of OSX, not Slack. You can turn it off in Keyboard settings IIRC.

Thank you so much for this. I actually couldn't find it the first time through so I documented the whole flow with screenshots here: http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/osx/2017/02/16/getting-rid-of-smart...

Re: Amazon Chime

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Microsoft had a much better chat before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat

Not sure how the heck I am just learning about Comic Chat and thus the creation of Comic Sans

Note that Comic Sans predates Comic Chat.

Re: Amazon Chime

#346

> ... transforms online meetings ... (has no mention of collaborative white-boarding)

you can check out Acrossio for a new experience with recording and bookmarking during the meeting! www.acrossio.com
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