“Total amateurs hacking things together” somehow managed to ship something functionally better than products from mature shops like MSFT that mean serious business. The irony there.
It has long been the legendary case that Microsoft takes three major versions to get a usable product, then encrusts it with ornamental features until it has trouble breathing around version 7 or 8.
I highly doubt Zoom’s video conferencing solution was solidly working while MS Teams crumbled under load two weeks ago is due to magic in Zoom’s macOS installer.
Wasn't talking about infrastructure, was talking about the ease of use that led to large market share. Zoom broke lots of platform rules to perform that trick.
