Zoom是新冠疫情期间为数不多的成功案例之一,如今,印度首富穆凯什•安巴尼瞄准Zoom,推出JioMeet应用程序,意图进军视频会议市场。
安巴尼旗下的信实工业有限公司在经过测试后推出了JioMeet视频会议应用程序,该公司的数字业务已经从Facebook和英特尔获得了数十亿美元的投资。JioMeet在上周四晚发布后,已经在谷歌应用商店上拥有超过10万次的下载量。
与谷歌Meet、微软Teams和其它服务一样,JioMeet为用户提供无限制的高清晰度通话。而且与Zoom不同,该程序没有规定的40分钟时间限制。Jio平台表示,电话可以持续24小时,所有会议都是加密的,并有密码保护。
在JioMeet发布的同时,字节跳动旗下的TikTok和阿里巴巴旗下的UC Web等数十款热门应用程序却在印度全国范围内被禁用,理由是这些应用程序威胁了用户安全和数据隐私。上周五,JioMeet在社交媒体上与“印度制造”标签一起走红。
JioMeet是安巴尼打造数字帝国的一部分。上周五,信实工业宣布,英特尔资本已经向其移动通信子公司Jio Platforms注资2.53亿美元。这家美国芯片制造商的子公司是近几周来第11位宣布支持Jio Platforms的投资者,该平台目前已经完成了约1.2万亿卢比(约合157亿美元)的巨额融资。
“JioMeet将是一个非常可信的行业颠覆者。”Bexley Advisors的董事总经理乌特卡什•辛哈说道,“它没有通话的时间限制,Zoom迎来了强势的竞争对手。”
Jio Platforms从音乐流媒体到线上零售和支付,迅速转变为一个电子商务巨头,不断扩大服务范围。与其他国家一样,新冠疫情期间,视频会议应用程序已经成为数百万印度人的重要工具。
JioMeet的登场,也正值Zoom用户指责该服务存在安全漏洞之际。(财富中文网)
助理报道:P R Sanjai
编译:于佳鑫
Zoom是新冠疫情期间为数不多的成功案例之一,如今,印度首富穆凯什•安巴尼瞄准Zoom,推出JioMeet应用程序,意图进军视频会议市场。
安巴尼旗下的信实工业有限公司在经过测试后推出了JioMeet视频会议应用程序,该公司的数字业务已经从Facebook和英特尔获得了数十亿美元的投资。JioMeet在上周四晚发布后,已经在谷歌应用商店上拥有超过10万次的下载量。
与谷歌Meet、微软Teams和其它服务一样,JioMeet为用户提供无限制的高清晰度通话。而且与Zoom不同,该程序没有规定的40分钟时间限制。Jio平台表示,电话可以持续24小时,所有会议都是加密的,并有密码保护。
在JioMeet发布的同时,字节跳动旗下的TikTok和阿里巴巴旗下的UC Web等数十款热门应用程序却在印度全国范围内被禁用,理由是这些应用程序威胁了用户安全和数据隐私。上周五,JioMeet在社交媒体上与“印度制造”标签一起走红。
JioMeet是安巴尼打造数字帝国的一部分。上周五,信实工业宣布,英特尔资本已经向其移动通信子公司Jio Platforms注资2.53亿美元。这家美国芯片制造商的子公司是近几周来第11位宣布支持Jio Platforms的投资者,该平台目前已经完成了约1.2万亿卢比(约合157亿美元)的巨额融资。
“JioMeet将是一个非常可信的行业颠覆者。”Bexley Advisors的董事总经理乌特卡什•辛哈说道,“它没有通话的时间限制,Zoom迎来了强势的竞争对手。”
Jio Platforms从音乐流媒体到线上零售和支付,迅速转变为一个电子商务巨头,不断扩大服务范围。与其他国家一样,新冠疫情期间,视频会议应用程序已经成为数百万印度人的重要工具。
JioMeet的登场,也正值Zoom用户指责该服务存在安全漏洞之际。(财富中文网)
助理报道:P R Sanjai
编译:于佳鑫
Zoom, one of the few success stories of the Covid-19 pandemic, now faces a new competitor in an app backed by Asia’s wealthiest person Mukesh Ambani.
Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd., which has scored billions of dollars of investments from Facebook Inc. to Intel Corp. for its digital businesses, has launched the JioMeet video conferencing app after beta testing. The app has already garnered more than 100,000 downloads on the Google Play Store after becoming available last Thursday evening.
Like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and other services, JioMeet offers unlimited high-definition calls—but unlike Zoom, it doesn’t impose a 40-minute time limit. Calls can go on as long as 24 hours, and all meetings are encrypted and password-protected, the company said on the JioMeet website.
The launch coincided with a nationwide ban on dozens of popular apps from Chinese technology giants including ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s UC Web, on grounds they threatened security and data privacy. JioMeet went viral last Friday on social media alongside the hashtag #MadeinIndia.
The app is one facet of Ambani’s rapidly expanding digital empire, which includes India’s largest telecom operator with nearly 400 million users. On last Friday, Reliance announced Intel Capital has invested $253 million into Jio Platforms Ltd., a unit of Ambani’s oil-to-retail conglomerate. The U.S. chipmaker’s arm is the 11th investor in about as many weeks to announce its backing for the digital services platform, which has now raised about 1.2 trillion rupees ($15.7 billion).
“JioMeet will be a very credible disruptor in the space,” said Utkarsh Sinha, managing director of boutique consultancy Bexley Advisors. “Just the fact that it has no time limits on calls makes it a serious challenger to Zoom, despite its entrenchment.”
Jio Platforms is amassing a wide range of services from music streaming to online retail and payments, fast turning into an ecommerce juggernaut that can take on Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc on its own home turf. Like elsewhere, video conferencing apps have become lifelines for millions of Indians working in cramped homes during Covid-19 lockdowns.
JioMeet is also debuting at a time Zoom users have accused the service of security flaws.
--With assistance from P R Sanjai.