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Is there any way you ever make $320m back by selling a better performance version of teamviewer/remote desktop? Or is there some other play here - e.g. a Stadia/GeForce Now competitor?
Seems like Unity is looking to build a similar stack with Parsec at the helm, but I guess we'll see...
Is there any way you ever make $320m back by selling a better performance version of teamviewer/remote desktop? Or is there some other play here - e.g. a Stadia/GeForce Now competitor?
When Teamviewer was at its peak it was worth at least $100m, now I'm not so sure it got displaced by other competitors probably. Edit: Somehow they got $460m revenue. Voila for Remote Desktop app. I would never thought they can make half a billion of dollars in revenue.
(i am looking at you Zoom)
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When Teamviewer was at its peak it was worth at least $100m, now I'm not so sure it got displaced by other competitors probably. Edit: Somehow they got $460m revenue. Voila for Remote Desktop app. I would never thought they can make half a billion of dollars in revenue.
Revenue increased probably because of the hack, because that seems to be how it works in this twisted world. (i am looking at you Zoom)
I hope this doesn't mean the end of Parsec as a standalone service. There's nothing out there that comes close to Parsec's performance and it'd be a huge loss.
On the client side at least a lot of what Parsec was leveraging seemed to be built on webrtc, so there's a lot of potential for similar things to come along I think.
(disclosure: I work on the backend at Parsec) For those who don't know either company: Unity is a popular 2D/3D commercial game engine, and Parsec is a low-latency remote desktop tool that initially focused on gaming, but pivoted to an enterprise product for remote creative teams during the pandemic.
Used to be that the client was free and you paid for the machine.
Is there any way you ever make $320m back by selling a better performance version of teamviewer/remote desktop? Or is there some other play here - e.g. a Stadia/GeForce Now competitor?
Microsoft's Game Pass xcloud service for iOS leverages Rainway, a competitor to Parsec. As a user of both I can say that Parsec outperforms Rainway although Rainway works in the browser. Seems like Unity is looking to build a similar stack with Parsec at the helm, but I guess we'll see...