BlueJeans?...Have we just run out of sensible names for stuff?
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It was a stupid name and a terrible service. Unsurprised to learn that Verizon was sitting on it just enshittifying it and waiting for it to make money without doing a damn thing with it. I hate this timeline.
Imagine being able to just waste $400 mil. While 40% of the people in the same, richest country on Earth are living paycheck to paycheck, trying not to become homeless.
You would think that Verizon had learned something from their purchase of AOL (2015) and Yahoo (2017) and subsequent 5B write-down but apparently not.
My tinfoil hat opinion is it's just strategic incompetence designed to dodge taxes somehow. Then again I'm a suspicious and cynical person. Could very well just be idiots.
The down side to this, of course, is that now you can't ask someone to BJ you when you want to do a video call.
We used BlueJeans at the startup I worked for starting in 2014. At some point a few years in, we switched to Zoom. I distinctly remember BlueJeans absolutely tearing through my laptop’s battery and the fan going into full hover mode. I was so glad to be rid of that thing.
If any of you want a true Zoom alternative then try Jitsi
wild i remember using this for job interviews a few years ago