Zoom is so popular in Silicon Valley, even a Google executive's child reportedly prefers it over Google's software
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Zoom has been beating out videoconferencing rivals Google and Microsoft in recent months — so much so that even a Google executive's child appears to prefer Zoom.
According to a new report on Zoom's rivals by The New York Times' Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel, during a Google staff meeting last month using Meet, Google's videoconferencing software, an employee brought up Zoom's dominance over Meet to
Zoom has become the software of choice as the coronavirus outbreak has pushed people indoors, resulting in a spike in videoconferencing for everything from remote work to socializing. As of April 21, Zoom's daily users were up 50% from the beginning of April — Zoom CEO
In the meantime, Google has been adding new features to Meet, like noise-cancellation and the ability to see everyone on a call in a grid view, which is a well-loved Zoom feature. Google is also making the service easier for people to use, rebranding it from "Google Hangouts Meet" to simply "Google Meet" and opening up the software's paid premium features to all users until September.
Google also said earlier this month that it's adding 2 million new users per day. Read The New York Times' report on Zoom's rivals here.Copyright © 2021. Times Internet Limited. All rights reserved.For reprint rights. Times Syndication Service.
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