> Slack/Teams handles company-wide video calls and can render anything a web browser can, and they run an entire App Store of apps, all from a cross-platform application.

The 4th Gen iPod touch had 256 meg of RAM and also did those things, with video calling via FaceTime (and probably others, but I don't care). Well, except "cross platform", what with it being the platform.

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dangus 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Group FaceTime calls didn’t exist at the time. That wasn’t added until 2018 and required iOS 12.

Remember that Slack does simultaneous multiple participants screen sharing plus annotations plus HD video feeds from all participants plus the entirety of the rest of the app continues to function as if you weren’t on a call at all simultaneously.

It’s an extremely powerful application when you really step back and think about it. It just looks like “text” and boring business software.

	▲	ben_w 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Group FaceTime calls didn’t exist at the time. That wasn’t added until 2018 and required iOS 12. And CU-SeeMe did that in the early 90s with even worse hardware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CU-Schools.GIF Even more broadly, group calls were sufficiently widely implemented to get themselves standardised 29 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.323 > It’s an extremely powerful application when you really step back and think about it. It just looks like “text” and boring business software. The entire operating system of the phone is more powerful, and ran on less.