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This is quite a tangent but... > Zoom, the app for ensuring the knowledge worker parts of an economy continue to work when there’s a pandemic, How did Zoom achieve this status? I had literally never used or heard of Zoom at home or at work prior to the pandemic, and now many treat it as synonymous with video chat the way that workplaces use Slack for text chat. Was there some crazy marketing strategy?
The alternative, WebEx, was even crappier at the time.
Multiple nested instances of marketplaces? We're getting close, soon the tower will fall and we'll go back to writing raw HTML in uppercase tags.
I’ll eat your lunch with my DHTML. Maybe a bit of Java for the trickier multimedia bits.
This is quite a tangent but... > Zoom, the app for ensuring the knowledge worker parts of an economy continue to work when there’s a pandemic, How did Zoom achieve this status? I had literally never used or heard of Zoom at home or at work prior to the pandemic, and now many treat it as synonymous with video chat the way that workplaces use Slack for text chat. Was there some crazy marketing strategy?
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I’ll eat your lunch with my DHTML. Maybe a bit of Java for the trickier multimedia bits.
DHTML, that’s some old school lingo. Lol.
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/javascript-dhtml/059600...
This is quite a tangent but... > Zoom, the app for ensuring the knowledge worker parts of an economy continue to work when there’s a pandemic, How did Zoom achieve this status? I had literally never used or heard of Zoom at home or at work prior to the pandemic, and now many treat it as synonymous with video chat the way that workplaces use Slack for text chat. Was there some crazy marketing strategy?
The alternative, WebEx, was even crappier at the time.
"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
This is quite a tangent but... > Zoom, the app for ensuring the knowledge worker parts of an economy continue to work when there’s a pandemic, How did Zoom achieve this status? I had literally never used or heard of Zoom at home or at work prior to the pandemic, and now many treat it as synonymous with video chat the way that workplaces use Slack for text chat. Was there some crazy marketing strategy?
Also, everyone's on gmail anyway so surprising google somehow just missed the boat on this huge competitor.
This is quite a tangent but... > Zoom, the app for ensuring the knowledge worker parts of an economy continue to work when there’s a pandemic, How did Zoom achieve this status? I had literally never used or heard of Zoom at home or at work prior to the pandemic, and now many treat it as synonymous with video chat the way that workplaces use Slack for text chat. Was there some crazy marketing strategy?
Because the bar was pretty low. GoToMeeting, WebEx, etc, were all significantly worse in UI, video stability, features, etc.
FYI because it's something of a hidden feature: you can close the Apps dock with the ⋮ vertical dots at the bottom right of the screen!