And while Zoom had security issues that Skype didn’t, most users didn’t seem to care. As journalist Adrian Kingsley-Hughes told ZD Net, “Downloading Zoom is a doddle, installing it is painless, and getting people into a meeting is as simple as sending them a link. The average user could set up and use Zoom in minutes so there was no reason to seek out another option. The second most important reason was simplicity. So between social media and brand name recognition for Zoom, Skype didn’t stand a chance. Unless your job had you video conferencing, you may have not had a clue what Zoom or Skype was until you saw the hosts of late night TV and other live TV formats using Zoom to do their shows. Zoom had confirmed their daily users spiked to 200 million in March, up from 10 million in December, and the Zoom app has been the top free app for iPhones in the United States since March 18th, with only TikTok in front of them.īut why did so many of us turn to Zoom when we had already been using Skype? Well, because many of us actually weren’t using either. Shortly after the initial stay-at-home orders went into effect, that all changed and the company’s tally of daily users had spiked by nearly 380% from a year earlier, and that’s after the company had already added more than 2.2 million new monthly users in the first two months of 2020. Entrepreneur using Zoom for a video conference

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