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by bluedino 4470 days ago
They never say what's wrong with existing products. I'm sure they aren't perfect but they do the following:

Everyone is familiar with them

They're reliable and scalable

They're cheap for the presenter to use

They have clients for Mac, PC, iDevices...

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> Everyone is familiar with them

I would say that "most people" never used "webinar" software, so everyone doesn't really cut it here.

> They're reliable and scalable

My last experiences where rather on the other side - Hangout often crashes on me and gotomeeting had problems with audio quality.

> They're cheap for the presenter to use

What is cheap, if they don't really work for me?

Also, they mostly are general video calling solutions and rarely geared towards running e.g. a workshop.

> They have clients for Mac, PC, iDevices...

Yep, but there is always a plus to established players.

In general, I think that the whole webinar space still has a lot of ground to cover, so new players are always welcome.