Because the vast majority of people that are using this have never once in their life done a virtual conference. I'm one of them, its a 15 minute meeting and its hard enough to get 50% attendance with constant questions of what to do, I cannot join, etc. Its crap I know, but when you reach for the lowest form of entry this is no surprise. Not gonna lie, I'll still use it till my school jumps ship.
The problem is the default setting.
FaceTime is very secure. Unfortunately a lot of people don't use Apple devices.
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People are trying to make this argument. That some of the vulnerabilities are low value. While true it downplays the larger issue.
Google quickly fixed the issues Meets had last week. Hosts can now lock rooms, and ended meetings now actually end them. Very surprised google allowed a host to leave and it didn't end the meeting. All meetings could never end because anyone who was in one could just join back into them when they want as long as they had the meeting link.
Skype had such a huge headstart over a lot of these companies, and with MS owning them, they really should be the GOAT. Weird how they just dropped the ball.
There were a few solid decades where Microsoft was The Devil and anything they touched had to be evil. That tends to slow down adoption and let other companies (google, apple, facebook, etc) get pretty strong footholds.
Probably more accurately due to costs to have more secure accounts. That's what my work is dealing with.
This is what I'm trying to parse from this thread... as someone who ONLY uses zoom for video chat with friends (no confidential/sensitive meetings) and uses password meetings, I'm likely OK? The odds of me convincing my friends to swap to a different app are slim to none.
Yeah I'm wondering what they meant too. Teams has been the best for us.
This has happened multiple times already.
I had heard about pretty much of all video conference software before the quarantine without using anything but skype but then suddenly it's Zoom, here, there and everywhere.
That's fucked up. Wouldn't using teams be better for something like this? My local school gave my kid a laptop with office and quite a good amount of software.
Yeah, that's the wrong word. I meant they were not a well known name to random people. At this point they have basically become one of the most used apps globally within a few weeks
The 40 minutes free and every platform availability is huge. Most others don't do that without paid subscriptions.
Isn't that something every platform has? I have certainly conducted longer meetings on skype and google hangouts.
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I am not aware of the free usage and how that pertains to corporate entities (or how zoom's does, to be honest).
