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Zoom app dock: Congratulations, your app has apps in it now

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Re: Zoom app dock: Congratulations, your app has apps in it now

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Post by aliqot »

paxys wrote: post #58
saurik wrote: post #4

This author seems shocked by this turn of events--with websites trying to be app platforms with embedded web views of websites--as if they are a recent phenomenon... have we all forgotten the (thankfully pretty short) time 15 years ago where everything that mattered suddenly had to be a Facebook app?

And 15 years before that when most internet users would launch apps from an AOL portal.

With browsers trying to obscure URLs now, we're also headed back to AOL keywords, along with the walled garden of our firewalls.

Re: Zoom app dock: Congratulations, your app has apps in it now

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Post by themoonisachees »

OJFord wrote: post #67
colordrops wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In California where I live it was. Skype was used by virtually no one. Teams and Jitsi were minor players. Google meet did not yet have traction. Most companies were using WebEx.

So as you say, most were already using something non-Zoom, that's the up-thread point - where did Zoom come from. Also I doubt Teams was a minor player, in usage maybe but not availability - it has a free tier I think but otherwise comes with O365, which is obviously not minor. Having it doesn't mean you use Teams, but it does mean that it ought to be an obvious choice if you suddenly, newly, have a need for a produc…

For what it's worth here in France every company I've worked at had o365 licences for email and everyone uses teams. I work as a sysadmin.

Re: Zoom app dock: Congratulations, your app has apps in it now

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Post by JoshTriplett »

blep_ wrote: post #66
JoshTriplett wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seconded. Use the web app, and when you're the one choosing the meeting technology choose more open alternatives like Jitsi (which doesn't even require an account for everyone).

Zoom also doesn't require an account for everyone.

Fair point, thanks for the correction.
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