Ryan Hoover

Amazon Chime - Frustration-free video calls. Amazon's Skype competitor.

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Emmanuel Françoise
Amazon acquired patents, employees from Biba, reportedly plans new video chat service => https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/2...
Kirill Zubovsky
@nopus That's a pretty fast turn-around!
Chris Messina
@nopus good catch. I discovered evidence that this is indeed the Biba app, but rebranded, inside the Mac OS app. There's also a couple files that reference Biba, like BibaCommonResources.bundle.
Steven Hambleton
@nopus They've also acquired do.com apparently - https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/0...
Kunal Bhatia
But does it have knock knock?!
falcon_games
The Halo Effect in action - Amazon becomes everything for everyone
Timmy Wahba
Someone test this out with me at https://chime.aws/beast
Timmy Wahba
It's.... not awesome.
Keith Kerr
This must use middle out compression
Peter Kortvel
What an interesting payed version of a totally free and totally web based appear.in
Craig Davison
Hmm I didn't know .aws domains existed 😳
Saul Fleischman
We use G+ hangouts. Native screenshare and up to 15 in the call at once. $5/month with a Google Business plan. Not $5 per user, $5 for the team. Recording meetings, static URL... Really, why people gush over this is beyond me.
Csaba Kissi
@osakasaul Agree, this one is free only for 1:1 calls so I wonder for the market share they will gain
Aaron McKeehan
Wow, I was lacking video conferencing options
Kirill Zubovsky
Man, I just wrote about how Amazon will become a Trillion $$$ company (https://medium.com/@kirillzubovs...) and that's an exciting future, but seeing apps like this also makes me scared for the future of startups. Amazon has amassed such power, they can out-execute and outrun anyone, and given that everything is stored on S3, it's only a matter of time. What do you guys think? How do you compete with a power giant that can copy any tool that they need?
mike*2.0
@kirillzubovsky for startups, there is always room for innovation. Only difference is your startup has to be unique and disruptive enough to make it otherwise no hope for generic solutions, the big dogs are clearly more hungry.