how I only ever heard about Zoom through podcast ads before the beginning of the year, and it's become a genericized trademark for any video chat by now

A decade ago it would've been Skype. How badly did Microsoft fuck that up?

  • deadtoddler420 [any]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Skype got like split into losing to discord, slack and zoom. I think a part of what happened is they wanted it to be a competitor to Facebook messenger and in the meantime Discord took its casual use slot and Slack took the more professional side of things. Then zoom came along and finished things off.

    • Terkrockerfeller [she/her]
      hexagon
      ·
      4 years ago

      Doesn't help that it sucked for group chats (which were increasingly the norm) compared to discord