Zoom meetings are a poor substitute for in-person meetings and a worse one for phone calls

Zoom meetings started out as replacements for in-person group meetings, but they're now also replacing phone calls. I think that's a mistake, and so does M.G. Siegler, who explains why in his newsletter, 5ish:

It went something like this: in-person meetings were the norm, then COVID hit, then in-person meetings went away, most meetings were postponed to see how the world would shake out, and when it was clear that it would not shake-out anytime soon, Zoom became the replacement for the in-person meeting.

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