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Re: Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people

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Post by scarface74 »

llampx wrote: post #50
muh_gradle wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zoom is most definitely here to stay. I am confident that remote work culture will continue to be a part of normal working culture going forward. There's too many advantages for both labor and businesses to keep remote work alive.

Is Zoom here to stay or is video conferencing here to stay? Google Meets and MS Teams are pretty good and built into their respective Office suite products.

I mean Google doesn’t exactly have a track record of successful products when it comes to chat and video conferencing.

Re: Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people

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Post by scarface74 »

davidhyde wrote: post #81
llampx wrote: post #50

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Is Zoom here to stay or is video conferencing here to stay? Google Meets and MS Teams are pretty good and built into their respective Office suite products.

Low friction web rtc based tools like streamyard and jitsi meet will probably become more popular than “native” apps like zoom and teams which tend to get slower and just generally worse as they are updated especially with large corporates driving the feature bloat.

All of the video conferencing apps have web interfaces. I work with a lot of different companies and end up using whatever conferencing system they use. I refuse to install any of them on my computer.

Re: Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people

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Post by chucksta »

ohgodplsno wrote: post #111
zaptrem wrote: post #51

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I've heard the same thing about "Peloton Culture" elsewhere, but not a good explanation of what that culture is. Can a HN Peloton user elaborate?

Take HN's hive mind tech bro culture, and apply it to overpriced classes that are basically a youtube video.

Yeah, and a geo metro is basically a Ferrari

Re: Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people

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Post by lostlogin »

dijit wrote: post #187
llampx wrote: post #50

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Is Zoom here to stay or is video conferencing here to stay? Google Meets and MS Teams are pretty good and built into their respective Office suite products.

> [..] and MS Teams are pretty good [..] I will never work for any company that uses Teams as their internal communication tool again. I'm done talking about "admins who set up groups wrong", or indicators that I'm holding it wrong... I feel very strongly that Teams is a consequence of a company that doesn't care what it inflicts on workers, regardless of price. The way teams shoves itself down my throat (we do not u…

I have to edit a lot of documents. Word appears to be an app, a web app and a thing in teams. None of them work the same and all have strange behaviour.

Try make a header or footer and edit it in one of the other apps MS offers.

Try edit or move an image.

Try work out how much text fits on a page.

It’s incredible how much market share teams has achieved with such poor functionality for basic tasks.

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Post by manishsharan »

RHSeeger wrote: post #147
llampx wrote: post #50

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Is Zoom here to stay or is video conferencing here to stay? Google Meets and MS Teams are pretty good and built into their respective Office suite products.

Every time I see I have a meeting with MS Teams, I get annoyed. - Most of the time, people don't setup a dialin number, so I can't use my phone - There's no way to display both the attendees list and the chat at the same time Those are two examples of things that just cause it to be an "also ran" in my mind. It's just missing a lot of the "nice to have" features; much the way Zoom did when it was first release... it…

MS Teams is well integrated within the Microsoft Windows desktop environment, which is what is used by most enterprises. I appreciate that it is integrated into my outlook and onedrive and co-authoring documents is easy in a meeting.

From IT departments' point of view, buying MS Teams license is a no-brainer.

edit: typo

Re: Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people

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Post by samfriedman »

sharkweek wrote: post #190
m4tthumphrey wrote: post #59

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Peloton subscriber here. £40/month is worth it. The quality of the classes is impeccable. It's like they've been produced with TV budgets! This price does also include the digital membership which has yoga, boxing and loads of other type of workouts. The bike (Bike+) is expensive but it's a solid piece of kit and does come with a 24 inch (Android) tablet. Edit: Forgot to say, the £40/month is per bike, not per member…

As someone who occasionally ride's my partner's peloton, I am BEGGING them to just let me watch Netflix or something on the screen. I have to jimmyrig an iPad over the huge screen because they won't let me just use the screen how I want.

It's just an Android tablet, and it appears to be rootable: https://www.reddit.com/r/pelotoncycle/wiki/index/howto/root

Not sure how recent those instructions are.

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Post by nradov »

thedougd wrote: post #61

I agree with lots of the negative sentiment on Peloton, however, the name of the luxury game is to stay ahead of the pack and maintain a premium brand. Much of what they've done to date is maintain a huge catalog of real-time and recorded streaming classes and videos. I found the news about Peloton working with Google to use Stadia as a platform for gaming on Peloton devices, very interesting. So far, what we've seen…

Zwift has done well with a fitness gaming product oriented around bike races and challenges. But the graphics are cheesy. And the whole game experience is mostly just about power output in a straight line with maybe some drafting tactics; it only even supports steering in a very limited way.

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Post by snapetom »

ivanche wrote: post #86
FinalBriefing wrote: post #42

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It's a lot cheaper than a monthly gym membership, but way more than say, Apple Fitness and others offer. Having not used their software or hardware, I'd assume that for people purchasing a really expensive bike, $40/mo isn't bad. Still...it feels steep.

Waaat? How much is gym membership in the US then if $40 is much cheaper? Edit: Thanks everybody for the explanation. In my head, gym == myself + good ol' iron. It seems that that is cheap in the US as well as in Europe :)

In addition to the monthly fees that others have mentioned, there's usually an upfront "setup" fee of a few hundred dollars. Gyms have traditionally done shady shit to lock you in, too.

Re: Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people

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Post by packetlost »

muh_gradle wrote: post #28
no_wizard wrote: post #13

I think we’re starting to see a bit of “post pandemic” economic factors and that explains some of the shake up on Wall Street as of late. I always felt this about Peloton more than anything though, that it was not going to be able to sustain growth numbers as the pandemic when either of these came to pass: 1) ended officially 2) waned on to the point that it became "normalized" in how to handle day to day activities…

Zoom is most definitely here to stay. I am confident that remote work culture will continue to be a part of normal working culture going forward. There's too many advantages for both labor and businesses to keep remote work alive.

Eh, I disagree. Remote work might become more common for things like software engineering, but I fully expect most others to shift back to how they were pre-pandemic. It's just a question of how long that shift takes
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