I'm not Zooming, but everyone I know is, and it looks pretty damn slick and seems to work great. I can't think of any service that has had as fast and huge an adoption, which is obviously due to blind luck/things beyond their control (no one saw global apocalypse coming and hoping for such would be a horrible business plan).
Of course there's been other services working just as well or better for at least 10 years now. Interesting things converged suddenly on Zoom. I guess full cross-platform support was the key? Also interesting is the deluge of anti-zoom articles that are blanketing the cybersphere :-) just as they are getting traction. Jealous rivals? Disgruntled lovers?
Zoom is the deluge du jour (literally—today has been the day of Zoom deluge complaints), but Occam called and wanted to let us know that we don't need any sinister explanations. It's obviously (or at least, explicable) as an effect of the covid crisis.
Of course there's been other services working just as well or better for at least 10 years now. Interesting things converged suddenly on Zoom. I guess full cross-platform support was the key? Also interesting is the deluge of anti-zoom articles that are blanketing the cybersphere :-) just as they are getting traction. Jealous rivals? Disgruntled lovers?