Does WebRTC need a change in governance?
Is it time to change the governance of WebRTC in order to keep it growing and flourishing?
Read MoreAmazon is a definite winner when it comes to WebRTC, and it isn't because of Mayday.
There are a lot of questions around monetization in WebRTC - what's the market size of WebRTC (it is zero). And there are shifts in the ecosystem - latest one that I know of is Bistri focusing on developers.
Back to Amazon. Amazon is "best known" when it comes to WebRTC from its Amazon Mayday implementation: a video contact center solution embedded directly into its Kindle Fire tablets.
But is Mayday Amazon's real monetization strategy for WebRTC?
Not really.
Dean Bubley sent out a tweet some time ago:
There are only 3-4 books today about WebRTC. The number of people who know WebRTC and purchase these books is probably in the lower thousands (I am being generous and optimistic here).
So that's probably not how they make money out of WebRTC.
What does make them money is AWS. I've written before on why AWS is suitable for WebRTC and why AWS isn't suitable for WebRTC. Most companies I interview and chat with about WebRTC tell me that they are using AWS in some way for their WebRTC service. About a half of the platform vendors I interviewed in my WebRTC API Platforms report are using AWS.
There's a good reason for this - WebRTC makes the perfect sense for cloud based services, and Amazon is king of the cloud at the moment. Greg O'Connor wrote an interesting piece for GigaOm this week, about Bezos' Law:
I’ll show the math below, but if Bezos’ law reflects reality, the only conclusion is that most enterprises should dump their data centers and move to the public cloud, thus saving money.
Is it time to change the governance of WebRTC in order to keep it growing and flourishing?
Read MoreRTC@Scale is Facebook’s virtual WebRTC event, covering current and future topics. Here’s the summary for RTC@Scale 2024 so you can pick and choose the relevant ones for you.
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