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Just yesterday I wrote about the thin line between fake and true. Let’s take a step forward into the realm of fake but for what might be a good cause (the end justifies the means… Macchiavelli said long time ago!).
Are you spending more and more time on Zoom (and the likes) to the point of feeling overwhelmed? Ever wished to have a way to sneak out of that boring conf call?
The need is there and wherever there is a need there is an opportunity: meet Zoom Escaper.
The Zoom Escaper is a software you can download on your computer providing you a number of fake sounds that seamlessly mingle in your outgoing audio channel so that you can pretend that a baby is crying, thus requesting your undivided attention or that your connection is getting poorer and poorer so that you cannot stay online.
The number of sounds, and therefore of excuses, allows you to use different ones in different calls, now isn’t that nice? Of course, as the app becomes more and more popular there might be some suspicions on the reality of a “sound”.
If you want a review on the effectiveness of the different sounds you can read the Verge article and have some fun too!
You can hear how it works directly from its inventor in the clip below.
Since we are talking about Zoom let me share some statistics:
Number of app downloads daily:
- January 2020 – 56,000
- February 2020 – 1.3 million
- March 2020 – 2.13 million
Participants in calls
- 10 million participants daily in December 2019
- 200 million participants in March 2020
- 300 million participants in April 2020
As of March 1st, 2021 Zoom has reached a 120 B$ market capitalisation, versus the 31 B$ of March 2020, with 2.65 B$ revenues in the fiscal year ending in January 2021, versus 623 M$ of the previous year.
