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For me it was the network--everyone in my phone contacts was already available to text. Skype hasn't transformed to the mobile world yet: I have to add people m

For me it was the network--everyone in my phone contacts was already available to text. Skype hasn't transformed to the mobile world yet: I have to add people manually even now. If WhatsApp introduces video calling and release a serous desktop/web application I am sure it will rival all Skype-like applications. However, all is not perfect--the voice calling sometimes work, and most often it doesn't. Purely on objective terms applications like Telegram work better for texting and groups, but the network effect will keep WhatsApp floating. Hope they will improve it soon.

vezycash 11y ago
Skype is maddening for me. I love Skype and that's why it hurts that they are going to lose to WhatsApp at this pace. I use Windows phone so here's my experience with both 1. Notifications - Skype doesn't notify me if I get a call or message when I was offline. WhatsApp does immediately 2. Call connection speed - with WhatsApp, it's instantaneous for me. Skype takes forever especially if the recipient is running Skype on mobile 3. In a poor imitation of WhatsApp, Skype now groups my phone contacts with my Skype contact. Obvious, can't call them without Skype credit so it just wastes my time unnecessarily 4. WhatsApp is much lighter. It seems they are trying to remedy this in Windows 10 mobile by decoupling the messaging part from the calling part 5. Notification count. Even on desktop, the notification count is always 1. Even if I get 100 messages, it'll show 1.