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> Each time users logged on to a Webex conference, the company’s systems would have to identify which version of the product (iPhone, Android, PC or Mac) to run, which slowed things down.

are all executives really that clueless about tech or do they say those dumb things to target investors that they know are clueless about the tech?

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The second, I was working with very smart CEO who was tech savvy, but had to invent exactly such kind of narratives because our not very tech clients were never understanding normal, real, even very very simplified, explanations. Tech was something mystical to them, and required mystical tales.

It's very possible he explained something entirely reasonable to the reporter who then misunderstood it.

There was probably some error in communication on this. Or they really are talking about shaving milliseconds.

Identifying the device is probably on the order of nano to microseconds.

In present day yes, but 5-10 years ago when you went to download the client their web interface didnt know what OS you were running, it would prompt and ask you to download either the .dmg or .exe

Anecdote: Sometime last week, I was given a Skype for Business link to login from my Linux laptop. Since regular Skype works fine on my Linux laptop, I thought this would be ok. Wonder of wonders, it wanted me to download and install an MSI :)

Please note: “Skype for Business“ is an entirely different program from Skype. They are completely unrelated.

That really might have been the tech, codebases can get pretty weird after a while.

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