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by jaimex2 2248 days ago
I wouldn't be spruiking 'built atop of' a product being banned by so many companies and schools.

If anything you should be pivoting to support as many of the other popular video conferencing apps out there.

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I've been building apps on Zoom for 5 years (3 years building private apps for Zoom based schools) and I'm grateful for the recent news helping Zoom to prioritize critical things that Eric said himself that they should have prioritized a long time ago.

The concerns are 100% valid, I'm glad to see them finally surfaced and addressed. I still like our odds w/ Zoom relative to WebRTC, their team is a proven mammoth. My son was on a Zoom call for school this morning... likely some PR relativity of the past week.

It's a two horse race at this point Zoom or WebRTC. Most start ups choose to build on WebRTC and focus on new workflows, we chose to build on Zoom to add the most meaningful leverage we could think of (data utility) to existing workflows.

You'd be surprised that the adoption trajectory of zoom has only increased of late. The cases you talk about are the exception to the rule.