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How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’

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796 points _Microft | 3 comments | 31 Mar 20 11:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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pottertheotter ◴[31 Mar 20 12:47 UTC] No.22736966[source]▶
I installed Zoom on macOS yesterday and I thought that the install was crashing because this is not the expected behavior. I would double click the download, try to install, and then the installation program would "crash", so I'd try it again. Did that a few times before I realized it was installed. Until now I thought it had somehow gotten far enough in the installation process before crashing that I could at least use the application. I'd been hearing everyone raving about how Zoom was such better software than anything else, and my first experience was their installer doesn't even work.

This was a horrible user experience for me, and I wasn't thinking about security implications at all.

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1. yreg ◴[31 Mar 20 22:29 UTC] No.22743433[source]▶
I too don't get how Zoom is considered "the superior software". Maybe the calls don't drop, but the experience is bad (at least on macOS).
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2. 7ewis ◴[31 Mar 20 22:41 UTC] No.22743535[source]▶
Said this on Reddit the other day and got downvoted.

It _is_ bad on macOS. It used to be one of the better platforms to stream video content to others, but now it just lacks in many areas compared to most of its competitors.

The worst bug I had was it essentially started muting random people on a call, but only for me. I could see their mouth moving, and thought it was a problem their side but turns out everyone else could hear them apart from me. I could hear everyone else too apart from them.

3. shreyshrey ◴[01 Apr 20 01:10 UTC] No.22744654[source]▶
Yes. My experience is really bad too in mac OS. I thought may be something wrong with my setup.