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Why have free alternatives to Skype not taken off? What's missing? It's just a 2 way video stream, right?
by brador 11y ago
Why have free alternatives to Skype not taken off? What's missing? It's just a 2 way video stream, right?
- Joona 11y agoUsers. Skype is the replacement for MSN Messenger, which people just used for chatting with friends.
- wmil 11y agoNAT / Firewalls cause a lot of issues. Peer to peer data isn't as straightforward as you'd expect. The Skype people actually came from Kazaa, so they had a lot of experience with sending peer data across corporate / educational firewalls. WebRTC is trying to generalize the technology, but it's new.
- Dylan16807 11y agoPlus asynchronous text chat.