I can't help but feel this sudden Zoom "panic" is coming from large (and incompetent) tech companies who are not happy with an upstart.
> (think, for example, Google Ads and Google Analytics).
> There’s no need to think about those, because both are widely known for compromising personal privacy
No need to think about google. Not sure about that one. Surely there should be more of a panic about google/facebook? Why the sudden zoom moral panic?
Presumably, as an enterprise solution they have major enterprise customers that may have a corporate policy disallowing facebook and google use.
MS did a terrible job with Skype and Lync. No doubt they were expecting to be able to bind it to exchange server and then create a coupling that embedded into an effective monopoly, creating yet another bad user experience that somehow becomes "the norm".
Hopefully at some point MS will compete by improving their products and we will have a better WFH experience.