It's nicely specced, but the fact that it's limited to a single service, Zoom, makes it unappealing to me, especially since I almost never use Zoom (we did some family virtual gatherings over Zoom for my kids' birthday and another family virtual happy hour). School meetings have all been Google hangouts (which we ended up moving to an old MacBook so we could use a Chrome plugin to get grid view instead of the default Google setup) and work meetings have all been WebEx with the only video being when someone shares their screens (I moved to a new team on June and I have no idea what any of my team members look like except for one person who put their picture in their WebEx profile so her face pops up when she speaks in a meeting when no one is sharing their screen).
and to most of us, but i imagine that most people aren't in the target market. My university outfitted all new lecture halls built in the last ~20 years with professional grade video recording equipment, most likely for thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars. By comparison, $599 for professors giving lectures via zoom seems like a bargain if the sound and video quality are substantially better than an ipad.
For the rest of us, we'll most likely continue with our phones, laptops, cheap webcams and ipads.
I'm guessing that there are a lot of people who will angrily return this when they realize that Zoom is only Zoom and they won't be able to use it for all the other videoconferencing stuff that they think of as "zoom" even though it's not.
