[SoftTalker]

The advantage of Zoom was that it just worked. No more spending the first 10 minutes of a call making sure everyone is online and can see/hear you. Or at least greatly improved.

[prmoustache]

Most of the issues people had was authorizing their webcam/microhpone on their browser, it was no different/better with Zoom than any other service.

And other services also had their own easy to install app (I think Jitsi only dropped the desktop app fairly recently).

I think the only thing really easier with Zoom was remembering the name. I think the brand constitutes 99% of its success.

[tonyedgecombe]

I remember it took days to figure out that there was a door over the camera on my wife’s laptop. I had no idea this could be the case.

[eXpl0it3r]

Except for investors who couldn't figure out the right "Zoom" to buy shares from [1].

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/98635c63-b4ab-49a3-9c18-1de6819d6...