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BlueJeans and RingCentral might as well be clones of Zoom. Amazon Chime and Microsoft Teams are fine for me too, but I'm not picky.

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After the disastrous experience I had with BlueJeans this morning, I wouldn't include it as a quality or reliability match for Zoom.

The company my wife works for can't get a reliable Teams conference going with anyone in France.

Zoom is a really great product.

The company lied about their encryption.

Both of these statements can be true, it's just a question of trade offs.

Ring Central uses Zoom for the backend.

I know they just announced their own "Ring central video" But im weary of that for the time being.

*wary

ah, my bad. I just googled and educated myself on the difference.

You say backend, but the frontend also has tons of overlap. The first time I saw RingCentral was after much Zoom experience, and I was thoroughly confused (based on nothing but the frontend) by the similarity until reading up about it. As a one-time invitee rather than a frequent user, RC was absurdly identical to Zoom other than the title bar and icon.

Ring central has used zoom on the backend for a while even before zoom went public. But just recently they added a powered by zoom watermark. And yes the applications do look very similar but RC meetings hasn't changed the UI in the 3+ years i've been using it.

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