As an aside just talking bout WORK performance during this huge shift to WFH, it's been wild to seem ZOOM go wild this pandemic, while WORK stagnated. I wouldn't have expected that.
I mean I think Slack uptake would benefit companies that have been forced into WFH, but shrug maybe that's not happening or doesn't seem like that's moved the needle on the stock price.
Because of the same qualities that made it successful in the corporate world!
• Zoom is for one thing—it doesn't try to also sell you on a new service for managing documents, calendars, or VR bitcoins.
• Zoom is extremely easy for new users to set up and quickly enter a video call. It works even on very old hardware and operating systems.
• Zoom's audio quality is unmatched in calls with lots of participants. It's relatively adept at dealing with poor network quality and audio equipment.
I really think there's a lot of lessons here for other companies.
Ah, I see you haven't been following the recent updates (in which Zoom wants to gradually try to replace Slack and become your default client for your calendar and third-party integrations)
Slack has many alternatives including using email
They're alternatives, but they are far from being usable alternatives.
It has to be comments like this that drove someone to create n-gate.
WebEx had 324,000,000 users running 73,000,000 meetings in March of this year [0]. As of April, Meet was adding 3,000,000 users per day with 100,000,000 users attending meets per day. [1]
You're obviously right though, they're clearly utterly unusable.
[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cisco-systems-webex-idUSK...
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/28/21240434/google-meet-thre...
It’s also possible for something to have many users and have them casually brought up as unusable. The OP doesn’t literally mean unusable. They are exaggerating for effect.