Pretty much every time Verizon wanders outside of its core competencies (operating telecom networks, lobbying to hamstring competition, undermining the most basic of regulatory oversight)…

Verizon Fails Again, Shutters Attempted Zoom Alternative BlueJeans After Paying $400 Million For It::Pretty much every time Verizon wanders outside of its core competencies (operating telecom networks, lobbying to hamstring competition, undermining the most basic of regulatory oversight), the telco amusingly falls flat on its face. It’s quite honestly starting to get a little weird. Whether it’s the company’s Go90 video streaming platform, its video joint venture with RedBox, its news website Sugarstring (which…

    • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • maporita@unilem.orgEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • TurboDiesel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • kill_dash_nine@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    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.