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Re: Off-topic: making WebRTC work in practice (Re: a brief pondering)

Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> Sun, 05 April 2020 17:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: Off-topic: making WebRTC work in practice (Re: a brief pondering)
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2020 10:06:10 -0700
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Cc: Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com>, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>, IETF <ietf@ietf.org>
To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
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> On Apr 5, 2020, at 9:42 AM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 04:09:10PM +0200, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>> Since I've been part of almost every single one of the removals that
>> Cullen refers to, it's no surprise that my perspective differs.
>> 
>> The push towards apps is, to my mind, mostly pushing towards *mobile*
>> apps - they try to push users into the Android/IOS ecosystems because
>> that's where most of the users are, and therefore most of the money is.
>> On the desktop, the single vendor focusing near-exclusively on an app
>> solution is Zoom.
> 
> It's true that Zoom does try to get me to install an app even on my linux
> desktop, but my colleagues who use macOS or Windows systems find that Zoom
> is hardly the only vendor that nudges them away from webRTC towards an app.
> Cisco's Webex suite, in particular, has enough apps that I'm not sure I
> could enumerate them all…

By the way, can someone point me to a list of conferencing solutions that use WebRTC?

Bob

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