I heard about this earlier but re-reading this headline made me smile all over again. I will simply never get tired of hearing about Verizon failing.
I feel like they have so many failed ventures.
They are just trying to emulate Google.
Bleh good riddance. Blue Jeans was the worst out of all video conferencing apps.
I find it pretty funny because I’m relatively informed on corporate voice conferencing as an employee and never even heard of blue jeans. I don’t think this ever even had a chance.
Verizon fails at almost everything not a telecom.
If its not telecomm they cant do it right. Remember them owning Yahoo, or perhaps Go90 and how fantastic those turned out??? Yeah…
Wait, people think they are competently handling telecommunications?
That’s like saying ISPs are doing a good job…
Fair enough.
You know, Skype still works fine and it’s free…
Or Jitsi Meet. And it’s not only free, but it can be run be everyone.
For company all-hands with hundreds or thousands of people?
HA HA!
Ah one of those endeavours where an executive thought “well, it can’t be that hard. We will do it better and cheaper and reap the profits”. Just to be hit with reality.
To be fair, that’s kinda how Zoom came about…
Wasn’t the CEO of Zoom a high level engineer for Cisco? I believe it was one of those situations where the executives weren’t listening to where he thought the WebEx platform should focus on development and he thought “Fuck it, I’ll do it myself”
I am seeing a lot of, “I hate Verizon.” Comments, you guys don’t know a lot about the telecom industry and AT&T’s rise and failure.
Look up the Baby Bells and the crack down on AT&T. Listen to a couple of security podcasts and learn about AT&T charging users 700 dollars and instead of looking into the bill mishap they were blaming the users.
Listen to the issues T-Mobile has with security.
Is Verizon better in every way? No. Is every other company better because Verizon is better. Also, no.
We do not defend companies in these parts. If everyone’s bad then everyone’s bad. There shouldn’t need to be a “relative to x, y isn’t that bad.”
The comments very much say otherwise. Additionally, I am not defending Verizon.
I am aware Lemmy users don’t defend companies.
