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Because the bar was pretty low. GoToMeeting, WebEx, etc, were all significantly worse in UI, video stability, features, etc.
Google Meet was there before the pandemic, and Jitsi (for an open source alternative) too.
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That's another question: when did blurring become a thing? It mostly sucks, and it feel like it's not that hard to make sure that you are fine with what's in your back... If you are not, just don't enable the video, right?
A lot of people are required to enable video to keep their job.
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Well, google was busy only supporting chrome browser for hangouts (yes you could have video in FF but it wouldn’t support blurring or any other advanced features it did in chrome), and Microsoft kept failing with Skype for Business. End of day, when you needed an app for video conferencing that worked for everyone, your choice was mostly zoom. And now we are here
That's another question: when did blurring become a thing? It mostly sucks, and it feel like it's not that hard to make sure that you are fine with what's in your back... If you are not, just don't enable the video, right?
Step 2: Zoom detects what website/app you're screen-sharing and charges Google / Microsoft / Miro etc a fee to enable "Ultra HD" for Zoom users when that site is showing on the screen (or they can join the New Zoom App Partner Program™ and publish the site as an app -- for a small revenue share fee of course)
Congrats Zoom! You are now a platform. Take a close look at the EU DMA legislation. :)
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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?
Reminder: the zoom desktop app has a history of terrible security practices and should not be installed on any machine with data you intend to keep private; use the (hidden with dark patterns) web version instead and never give these people access to your computer.
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.