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Our company read.ai builds add-ons for videocon clients so I'm pretty familiar with most clients.

- Zoom is just simply the best in terms of stability, performance, user experience, and in particular ease-of-first-use. Call quality is the best.

- Webex is a hot mess. They've been scrambling to catch up and have made stride but have a ways to go. Install is a nightmare

- google meet feels like it's barely changed in 5 years. Makes my fans take off. Decently stable at least

- Teams is decent all-around, featureful, and actually had a good SDK before Zoom, but install/userex and stability struggle at times

- is skype even a thing still?

Hands down the two biggest factors are time-until-first-use, friction, and stability of the audiovideo stream. Zoom simply dunked on the other legacy players in this regard.

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