There is a free version, which allows meetings of up to 100 participants for a maximum of 40 minutes, but this is supplemented by a variety of paygrades for plans that enable users to go beyond that. Launched in 2011, Zoom was designed for intracompany communications and, until recently, was principally used by organizations paying a fee.
Courtesy: Getty Images photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP Other videoconferencing apps, such as Houseparty, are also seeing a boom in use, as are more traditional means of communication (phone calls are making a serious comeback), but Zoom has become emblematic of the change in our digital lives during the coronavirus crisis.Ī teacher works from home, 1 April 2020, Arlington, Virginia. While web developers are amazed that the platform’s infrastructure can support this exponential growth and digital privacy activists worry about its security, the stock market has seen a 143 percent increase in the company’s valuation. Microsoft’s Teams software, designed for remote collaboration, has seen a 37.5 percent uptick in use Slack, the communication tool for workplaces, is expecting to sign three times as many new paid accounts as it does in a regular quarter Netflix and YouTube had to lower the video quality they offer because of pressure on the network and the most downloaded non-game app of the past few weeks has been the videoconferencing platform Zoom.īetween December 2019 and the end of March 2020, Zoom’s daily users have grown twentyfold, from 10 million to 200 million. The lockdowns now affecting a third of the global population have led to a spike in internet use and, for many, a very different daily life online.
Not that I’m counting, but I must have spent at least 14 hours a day in front of my computer over the past few weeks.
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