Zoom has overtaken many popular entertainment apps like WhatsApp, TikTok and Instagram on the Google Play Store to claim the top spot.
STRONG POINTS
- The Zoom app is now the most downloaded Android app in India
- Zoom has overtaken the many popular entertainment apps like WhatsApp, TikTok and Instagram on the Google Play Store.
- WhatsApp has slipped to fifth position despite a strong increase in its use.
There is no turning back for the Zoom video conferencing app, as the Silicon Valley-based start-up has now climbed to the top of the charts on the Google Play Store. The Zoom app is now the most downloaded Android app in India amidst the coronavirus lockdown in India.
Zoom has overtaken the many popular entertainment apps like WhatsApp, TikTok and Instagram on the Google Play Store. The basic version of Zoom allows up to 50 participants to join a video conference. Interestingly, Zoom is the only application on the market today that allows more than 10 people to join a call. This is the reason why it has become the most preferred application overnight for professionals. Zoom has so far more than 50 million downloads on Play Store and the numbers are only increasing.
Meanwhile, WhatsApp slipped to fifth position despite increased usage. The application with more than 400 million users in the country has always remained among the top two.
Zoom is one of the tech companies that has profited immensely from the coronavirus pandemic to the point that Adweek has called it the king of the quarantine economy. With more and more people working at home, Zoom has become the sought after application because it specializes in teleworking and remote working software.
Zoom recently fell in the eye of the storm after a Motherboard tech website reported that the iOS app shares user data with Facebook, whether or not the user has a Facebook account. However, Zoom soon released an update to its iOS app to prevent sharing of private data with Facebook.
Founder Eric Yuan said in his blog that the protocols and processes for implementing data sharing features with Facebook are being reviewed by the company.
“Zoom takes user privacy very seriously. We would like to share a change we made regarding the use of the Facebook SDK. We initially implemented connection with Facebook functionality using the Facebook SDK for iOS (Kit of software development) in order to provide our users with another convenient way to access our platform, we have therefore decided to remove the Facebook SDK from our iOS client. Users will need to update to the latest version of our application a once it is available for these changes to take effect, and we encourage them to do so, wrote Yuan.
Zoom has overtaken many popular entertainment apps like WhatsApp, TikTok and Instagram on the Google Play Store to claim the top spot.
STRONG POINTS
- The Zoom app is now the most downloaded Android app in India
- Zoom has overtaken the many popular entertainment apps like WhatsApp, TikTok and Instagram on the Google Play Store.
- WhatsApp has slipped to fifth position despite a strong increase in its use.
There is no turning back for the Zoom video conferencing app, as the Silicon Valley-based start-up has now climbed to the top of the charts on the Google Play Store. The Zoom app is now the most downloaded Android app in India amidst the coronavirus lockdown in India.
Zoom has overtaken the many popular entertainment apps like WhatsApp, TikTok and Instagram on the Google Play Store. The basic version of Zoom allows up to 50 participants to join a video conference. Interestingly, Zoom is the only application on the market today that allows more than 10 people to join a call. This is the reason why it has become the most preferred application overnight for professionals. Zoom has so far more than 50 million downloads on Play Store and the numbers are only increasing.
Meanwhile, WhatsApp slipped to fifth position despite increased usage. The application with more than 400 million users in the country has always remained among the top two.
Zoom is one of the tech companies that has profited immensely from the coronavirus pandemic to the point that Adweek has called it the king of the quarantine economy. With more and more people working at home, Zoom has become the sought after application because it specializes in teleworking and remote working software.
Zoom recently fell in the eye of the storm after a Motherboard tech website reported that the iOS app shares user data with Facebook, whether or not the user has a Facebook account. However, Zoom soon released an update to its iOS app to prevent sharing of private data with Facebook.
Founder Eric Yuan said in his blog that the protocols and processes for implementing data sharing features with Facebook are being reviewed by the company.
“Zoom takes user privacy very seriously. We would like to share a change we made regarding the use of the Facebook SDK. We initially implemented connection with Facebook functionality using the Facebook SDK for iOS (Kit of software development) in order to provide our users with another convenient way to access our platform, we have therefore decided to remove the Facebook SDK from our iOS client. Users will need to update to the latest version of our application a once it is available for these changes to take effect, and we encourage them to do so, wrote Yuan.