[HN Gopher] Verizon is shutting down the videoconferencing app i...
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       Verizon is shutting down the videoconferencing app it bought for
       $400M
        
       Author : stock_toaster
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2023-08-09 20:10 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theverge.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theverge.com)
        
       | Macha wrote:
       | They could never even convince people internally to migrate from
       | Webex and Meet, so this is not surprising.
        
       | mdwalters wrote:
       | How to destroy your competitor: Buy it, then shut it down.
        
       | lockhouse wrote:
       | Verizon baffles me with purchases like this. They have bought a
       | lot of random companies like this and Yahoo with no real purpose,
       | while effectively letting T-Mobile take the decisive lead on 5G.
       | What were they thinking?
        
         | thumbsup-_- wrote:
         | Seems like they operate like r/wallstreetbets which is if
         | something is cheap, let's buy it as it can only go up, only to
         | see later that it can go down further. A lot.
        
           | lockhouse wrote:
           | It just seems like spending that cash on oh, I don't know 5G
           | cell phone coverage would've been a much smarter investment
           | long term, but I'm not a C-suite executive, so what do I
           | know.
        
         | lotsofpulp wrote:
         | Verizon and ATT executives thought they could try and compete
         | with Apple/Alphabet/Microsoft/Amazon/Meta.
         | 
         | Being a dumb pipe has less profit potential than being a
         | multimedia utility ad delivery platform business.
        
       | rpaddock wrote:
       | I used BlueJenes briefly on a paid account, it was better
       | implemented than Zoom. The issue I ran into was people didn't
       | want to install the BlueJeans client because they already had
       | Zoom.
        
         | 972811 wrote:
         | as someone from a company that used to use bluejeans, in no way
         | would I say it was better than zoom or even teams. thank god we
         | stopped using it
        
       | nocoiner wrote:
       | A company I used to work for adopted BlueJeans for conference
       | calls and videoconferencing prior to the pandemic. I never used
       | it because I thought the name was incredibly dumb. I just
       | continued to use my ancient 800 number and PIN code for
       | conference calls.
       | 
       | Then I, like everyone else in the world during the pandemic, got
       | Shanghai'd into Team Zoom or Team Teams, depending on who was
       | leading the meeting. Goodnight sweet BlueJeans, I never knew ye.
        
       | joezydeco wrote:
       | Holy crap I forgot all about them, especially during the
       | pandemic. Now it all makes sense.
        
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