Zoom app dock: Congratulations, your app has apps in it now

This author seems shocked by this turn of events--with websites trying to be app platforms with embedded web views of websites--as if they are a recent phenomenon... have we all forgotten the (thankfully pretty short) time 15 years ago where everything that mattered suddenly had to be a Facebook app?

It took me a while stumbling around their settings (maybe dark pattern alert) to figure out how to disable this for your team if you&#x27;re an admin.<p>* Navigate to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;us06web.zoom.us&#x2F;profile&#x2F;setting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;us06web.zoom.us&#x2F;profile&#x2F;setting</a><p>* Click on &quot;Zoom Apps&quot;<p>* Toggle the &quot;Zoom Apps Quick Launch Button&quot; sliders.<p>This took me about 30 min to figure out because all the emails from Zoom about how to &#x27;manage&#x27; this was a link to their marketplace which is an upsell to add apps, not to disable it. HTH someone else.

“ Wow is the web a weird application delivery mechanism where people are writing applications and then essentially compiling them down to binaries using WebAssembly, but weirdly shoehorning it into a hypertext framework”<p>I thought this was an interesting quote from the article that relates back to something I’ve been thinking about as I’ve started to look at writing apps that run any where and realized that forces you into writing a web app, but web apps kind of suck because at the end of the day you’re really writing a website not an app…<p>I wonder if you could at this point reinvent the browser so it was specialized for web apps not sites, and what that would even look like.

FYI because it&#x27;s something of a hidden feature: you can close the Apps dock with the ⋮ vertical dots at the bottom right of the screen!

There are lots of existing and aspiring superapps out there.<p>It might be new to OP

I have never heard of any of the apps in the new app dock.

Always join zoom from browser

This is quite a tangent but...<p>&gt; Zoom, the app for ensuring the knowledge worker parts of an economy continue to work when there’s a pandemic,<p>How did Zoom achieve this status? I had literally never used or heard of Zoom at home or at work prior to the pandemic, and now many treat it as synonymous with video chat the way that workplaces use Slack for text chat. Was there some crazy marketing strategy?

Multiple nested instances of marketplaces? We&#x27;re getting close, soon the tower will fall and we&#x27;ll go back to writing raw HTML in uppercase tags.

Congrats Zoom! You are now a platform. Take a close look at the EU DMA legislation. :)

Step 2: Zoom detects what website&#x2F;app you&#x27;re screen-sharing and charges Google &#x2F; Microsoft &#x2F; Miro etc a fee to enable &quot;Ultra HD&quot; for Zoom users when that site is showing on the screen (or they can join the New Zoom App Partner Program™ and publish the site as an app -- for a small revenue share fee of course)

Reminder: the zoom desktop app has a history of terrible security practices and should not be installed on any machine with data you intend to keep private; use the (hidden with dark patterns) web version instead and never give these people access to your computer.

&quot;Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.&quot;