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has anyone built something on top of twilio's video offering? it looks relatively straightforward, and seems to me like most tech companies (and some university IT departments) could pretty easily build internal conferencing stuff on top of it if they cared to.
> But in many of the verticals in these sectors—such as banking or mobile phone services—no single company dominates the market. I don't think that's true of video-conferencing either. Zoom is probably the most popular (and technically superior), but there is also: Microsoft Teams, Webex, Google Meet, Slack, and many others, including open source options like Jitsi. And they all pretty much do the job.
For those that haven't tried Jitsi - my friends and I catch up on it almost daily. It is awesome. The phone app is great too. You can setup a room that people can jump in and out of, which is pretty convenient. If you're looking for that office feel for your small team, then Jitsi might be worth a shot. And, I think you can host your own server if you'd like to!
These two things as a common toolkit would accelerate offerings that could decentralize the marketplace. I've seen jitsi offerings (scalable setup isn't as straightforward last I checked which admittedly was a long time ago), twilio (still someone else's servers), etc. I'm sure these toolkits are being worked on (heck I'm working on one), it just takes a bit of time for the players to catch up in a market that exploded overnight.
Zoom is only going to stay widely adopted until an easy, viable alternative comes along and gets in the good graces of people in charge. There are some alternatives now, like Facebook's group calls on WhatsApp but that one's fallen out of favour for obvious reasons.
It's not. People always find a way to adapt.
It's not. People always find a way to adapt.