Teamviewer Alternative – What to Consider When Choosing Your IT Tools

techsee.me

8 points·techsee_me··5 comments

Teamviewer's remote display technology is very good. Last time I checked I couldn't find anything with that fidelity.

I also think that good product is worth paying for. We paid about 1.5k Euros to get remote sharing between the four of us about 5 years ago, but the product quality isn't as good as it was back then.

Also, Teamviewer advertised it as being a "lifetime license", but when the next major version came out (after about 4 months) they wanted another 900 Euros to upgrade, i.e. lifetime license for that major version. And they like to increment the major version number (now on 12).

Sure, I should have read the small print, but I view this as a dark pattern, we never paid any more money to them and never will.

article is devoid of any actual content

Of course it is, they're just trying to hawk their product, there's valuable SEO "juice" to be had by linking their site to the keywords "Teamviewer Alternative".

I don't normally mind people advertising their own products when the article is actually good, but in this case it's vapid and empty, so it's hard to overlook.

I concur.

This article mentions a breach in TeamViewer's security, but references an article stating that no breach exists.

It also meanders about, over-describing the history of networking and giving short, vague lines about AI powered workstation troubleshooting.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com