[dtnewman]

> "makes it unappealing to me"

and to most of us, but i imagine that most people aren't in the target market. My university outfitted all new lecture halls built in the last ~20 years with professional grade video recording equipment, most likely for thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars. By comparison, $599 for professors giving lectures via zoom seems like a bargain if the sound and video quality are substantially better than an ipad.

For the rest of us, we'll most likely continue with our phones, laptops, cheap webcams and ipads.

[dhosek]

I'm guessing that there are a lot of people who will angrily return this when they realize that Zoom is only Zoom and they won't be able to use it for all the other videoconferencing stuff that they think of as "zoom" even though it's not.