Keeping it Simple
summary
Thirty years of RTC lessons tied to concrete wins and failures: ICQ popularizes presence indicator on dial-up, MSN Messenger’s voice fails because nobody solved NAT traversal, Skype fixes it with P2P achieving ~90% call success, the Skype iPhone app works but kills batteries, WhatsApp grows to billions by using phone contacts and text-first UX, Zoom explodes by removing friction with join or host, a small eight-person company blends classic signal processing and deep learning aiming for dynamic spatial audio, lossless screen sharing, and VR’s missing killer app.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:48Innovation
- 4:36Utility Usability
- 5:29Distribution
- 6:55Skype
- 8:03Skype for iPhone
- 9:26WhatsApp
- 11:33Zoom
- 12:38Unique Utility
- 17:13Predictions for 2023
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