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Often I’ve seen that the one person calling in the most senior person in the meeting, or anyone involved in sales. Someone who is traveling around to meet in person a lot. Often they are calling from the road or an airport. The mobile phone connection is more reliable than mobile data in these scenarios.

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This feels like the equivalent of sending tweets by sms or dialing by tapping tones. People use it mostly because it’s supported, they’d use different workarounds otherwise.

Then it’s cool when it works and allows niche uses, but you can’t expect the feature to be there forever and can’t keep optimizing a service for these use cases.

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