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>Gigabit internet - video call quality is significantly better than it was 10-15 years ago.

You don't need gigabit internet for good video quality. We solved this with the MPEG-4, specifically H.264.

Most video streaming software still uses H.264 to this day, or some "mimic" of it. This was 15+ years ago btw.

You only need like, maybe 100 Mbps. Most definitely less for normal conferences.

> Zoom/Google Meets - the attention Zoom gave to UX just wasn't matched by any other precursor. Google Meets is a close second.

Opinion based, and you're welcome to have it. But not sure what qualifies as any sort of good evidence or reason for companies moving to other countries for their labor force.

>GSuite/O365 - sharing documents across organizations and being able to search for them successfully org wide has gotten much better now due to tools like Glean

Again, you're welcome to your opinions. Sharing documents in organizations across cities, states, and countries has been pretty mainstay for 30+ years.

And if you want my honest opinion, the tooling has gotten worse.

> Slack - most traditional companies didn't adopt Slack until the pandemic. Before that they were primarily leveraging email

At this point I'm just having trouble understanding why you think these things are fundamentally game changers.

>and DevTooling throughout the 2010s

Like what?

Again, if that's the best examples you could come up with they're not really enough and even worse (in the cases of GSuite/365) they are counter to your point about tooling improvement.



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