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.
Is there anything that Verizon can do well?
They’re pretty good at arbitrarily raising prices.
There top of their class in missing credits and charging arbitrary fees.
They all arbitrarily raise prices. The most recent lawsuit with AT&T was a 2 dollar increase to customers bills that they got sued for and lost. What was the resolution? They paid far less than they made.
It’s not just Verizon my friend.
I like FIOS. Between that or spectrum I’ll take Verizon every time
FiOS has been my favorite ISP because it’s just a hole in the wall the internet comes out of, and I can use my own hardware and they don’t seem to care if I run a server.
The bar is pretty low but at least they hit it.
Verizon fails at almost everything not a telecom.
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…
But the difference is that zoom was usable. I used blue jeans like twice early in the pandemic, and it was just an annoyance to use at the best of times. Can’t imagine what it would have been like to actually have to use that day to day…
To add to your point, I originally used GoToMeeting for my business, but had to switch to Zoom because everyone knew how to use it because of the pandemic.
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”
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!
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.
