Amazon plans to end support for its videoconferencing tool Chime on February 20, 2026; report: Amazon is adopting Zoom as its standard app for internal meetings
cc @quinnypig.com [embedded post] Emil Protalinski / @emilprotalinski : Amazon acquires Zoom in 3, 2, 1... [embedded post] Patrick / @itspatrickpl : Did not even know that this existed Mastodon: Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken@mastodon.social : I've used Zoom, Meet, and Teams for gazillions of calls. Webex less so, though Apple uses it. But I've only been on Chime was when talking to Amazon folk, and lately even they've asked whether I was willing to use it. https://techcrunch.com/... X: Nick Frichette / @frichette_n : End of an era! My biggest gripe with Chime was that in the early versions I couldn't figure out when I was muted/unmuted, which made some of my early AWS disclosures/meetings awkward. https://aws.amazon.com/... @rickasaurus : The death of Chime, the worst video conferencing software on the planet that you're forced to use if you do business with Amazon, is worth throwing a party for [image] @rekdt : People assume security at big tech is easy because they can just roll their own services Amazon Chime is a fantastic example of what happens when big tech rolls their own services for internal use only Burn in hell for eternity, Amazon Chime, I'll be dancing on your grave Eugene Kim / @eugenekim222 : New: Amazon makes Zoom its “standard” companywide meeting app, replacing homegrown app Chime, internal memo shows. Chime is being deprecated due to “limited” external use. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... LinkedIn: Derek Pando : About year after starting at Zoom in 2017, I got a call from a recruiter at Amazon, they wanted me to consider a job working on Chime. … Milo Fels : This is - by far - the best AWS announcement I have ever read in the past 5 years. — Chime's UX is one of the worst in the world, I would have never believed this dream of mine would come true. … David Victoria : The end of an era. Long live Amazon Chime! Anyway, the only ones using it (and complaining) were the Amazonians themselves. 🤣 Dhaval Nagar : Amazon killed Chime (sort of). — Amazon Chime is available as a service for business calls and meetings like Teams, Slack, or Zoom. … Iqbal Javaid : This is bigger news than most people think. — Amazon has retired its Chime collaboration solution. — Which means Zoom is now the standard Meetings app for it's employees and customers. …