I don't think that's true of video-conferencing either. Zoom is probably the most popular (and technically superior), but there is also: Microsoft Teams, Webex, Google Meet, Slack, and many others, including open source options like Jitsi. And they all pretty much do the job.
If the latter, and you're using X, it should be possible to write a program that takes the selection buffer and provides a different response to each SelectionRequest in turn, letting you walk through a script pasting a command at a time without having to leave the current window. I don't know whether such a thing already exists.
I had a videoconference with some Apple people this month, and they were all on WebEx.
Maybe there's a reason. I couldn't tell you. My company is a hodgepodge of Zoom, Teams, BlueJeans, and who knows what else.
At the same time, outside of work, I was videocalling people on Skype, and my wife had classes delivered via Zoom.
How do corporations even allow access for this particular features?
I'm not concerned about Zoom monopoly at all.
Mostly they were using a 3rd party solution like webx/zoom/etc but one doctor (automated in an online form) noticed his number was tied to iMessage and offered to just FaceTime him at his appointment time. Super easy for him (at 94) to self-manage vs any other solution where we (my mother or myself) need to be around to set things up for him.
Not sure how they are doing this exactly, if this is something Apple specifically enabled for healthcare or whatever, but its a fantastic experience.
Whatever solution they were using did have an "no I have an android and a 'use my computer' option" not sure what path they led down.
Apple is probably doing more harm than good at this point for themselves by keeping iMessage/FaceTime so locked down to their hardware since their revenue stream is trending more towards services and less weighted in hardware.
Apple could easily open up Facetime and iMessage, and they've evaluated doing exactly this, but they ultimately determined that keeping these pieces of communication software exclusive to Apple devices is a big part of why the devices themselves are so sticky.
I can call my doctor using any phone I like, and E-mail her using any E-mail client I like. It is beyond unreasonable to require a patient to install specific client software in order to access care.
The phone app is great too. You can setup a room that people can jump in and out of, which is pretty convenient.
If you're looking for that office feel for your small team, then Jitsi might be worth a shot.
And, I think you can host your own server if you'd like to!
I'm no Zoom fan, but in the Zoom meeting I had this morning with 38 people my 2015 MacBook Pro's processor peaked at 11%.
Zoom knows how to do something better than the other companies. They really need to catch up.
Wasting CPU/heat is a different problem.
Zoom is still better, but Teams now seems "good enough" to me.
Like any mission critical infrastructure, it's up to organizations to have some redundancy. Nothing new.