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>Zoom has seen a huge increase in consumer usage.

Moreso than others? I deal with customers/partners all the time, and I count the following desktop clients installed on my laptop:

- Zoom - GoToMeeting - BlueJeans - Skype for Business - WebEx - Join.me

Also:

- Teams - Slack - Hangout Meet

And I'm probably missing a bunch. Is Zoom that much bigger?

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Yes, Zoom has recently been adopted by local non-business groups across the world. Anecdotally, my wife's momgroups have Zoom now, and she's also using it with her own family. None of the alternatives are even close to good comparatively in ease-of-use and stability.

Ah. Makes sense. I deal mostly with businesses, and Zoom, from my anecdotal experience, is a minor player there.

In mid-2019 Zoom was only behind Cisco WebEx: https://www.ciodive.com/news/zooms-rise-carving-market-share...

Now it is the market leader. Hence all the bad P.R. Zoom's CEO was the head engineer for WebEx.

Also public, profitable.

Ease of use that came from bending platform rules.

you know what is more important than platform rules ? satisfying consumers. Remember that tech is made for humans before everything else !

e.g., if a majority (or even strong minority) of people in a country bends a rule, you change the rule to accommodate people, you don't put 30% of your population in jail. If zoom was a country, it would be the ~10th european country by population, you can't just ignore that.

In this case they were breaking security rules. The main people that accommodates is hackers.

which rule is being broken here ?

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