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One of the things I find interesting is that somewhat organic/bottoms-up solutions have generally won out in collaboration. Video sort of just naturally grew out of IP-based telephony. (ADDED: And, as you say, video with a big premium attached--much less special conference rooms etc.--was a real niche. But video that was just a part of cheaper IP-based telephony really took off.) Collaborative doc editing sort of naturally grew out of the migration of office suites to SaaS. Chat has been around forever but assumed a more important role.

None of this looks like a grand unified collaborative toolset like a lot of people were thinking in terms of through the 2000s.




All of the value add from telcos is expensive and a pain in the ass 100% of the time.

Why do I only get sms/mms on my phone? It uses http to get the mms message anyway, why can't I get it on my computer?


Because MM7 is the gnarliest protocol ever, even by telco standards?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMS_Architecture




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