“I’ve wondered for years why Skype wasn’t more popular for things that didn’t absolutely positively involve f2f meetings.”
Just my opinion, but when you have face-to-face meetings, you really just have one passageway to communicate, one at a time. Stick 20 people in a room, and often you’ll have multiple small discussions going on simultaneously, along with the main discussion.
Someone need to come up with an app that deals with that.
Skype for business takes care of one on one or 100’s of attendees. I work from home for a large IT company and employees are all over the world. Skype is what we use for all of our meetings, from one on one meetings with a manager or training a new employee to small team meetings of 4-20 people or project meetings of 80 to all account meetings with over 1k. You can use a whiteboard or share anything on your PC.