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by KorfmannArno 2182 days ago
Again, what about Zoom's remote control feature (or annotate/whiteboard)? Is any competitor doing that?
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The remote control and whiteboard in Microsoft Teams are better in my experience.

In fact, Teams seems to have better (although still not good) UX and connection reliability as well, at least for corporate meetings. There’s generally no P2P possible from behind “enterprise” security gear or VPNs, so Zoom suffers a bit falling back while Teams blissfully just works via TCP/443 or a browser.

Zoom's whiteboard is pretty bad. Slow, clunky, weird bugs on some OSes (pen draws in wrong place on Android IME), no pressure sensitivity. There are loads of shared whiteboard type services (search on HN; IIRC we've had a few discussions recently), but most of them don't support audio and video as well. I think Zoom for audio and video while using a separate shared whiteboard might work quite well, but I haven't had reason to try it yet.
Didn't include that, but that's a great feature.