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Skype seems to have been static for the last few years. Which is surprising because 'skyping' is as much an everyday word for web-calling as 'googling' is for s
by AlexMuir 16y ago
Skype seems to have been static for the last few years. Which is surprising because 'skyping' is as much an everyday word for web-calling as 'googling' is for search. It's been under appreciated.
- AgentConundrum 16y agoI've never heard anyone use the word "skyping."
- AlexMuir 16y agoLet's Skype, Skype me Very common for me.
- mikeryan 16y agoIn particular I use this when dealing with European clients/international calls. "Skyping" is a pretty common alternative to "calling".
- stanleydrew 16y agoHave you heard anyone use any other word for voip calling?
- eitally 16y agoThat just reflects the fact that you probably don't operate in a workplace where it isn't clear what mode of communication is meant when someone sets up a "call." At my multinational, explicitness is requisite since the requester could mean POTS-to-POTS (legacy PBXes), VOIP-to-POTS (Nortel softphone for the VOIP, connecting to older PBXes), VOIP-to-VOIP (Asterisk), Skype-to-Skype, or Skype-to-Voice (via VoSky). When someone says "let's Skype" in my world, they either mean Skype-to-Skype (which is implicit if they are in your Skype contacts) or Skype-to-VOIP using one of our VoSky appliances that's tied into our PBXes. The verb "to call" is almost meaningless these days.
- dtcavallaro 16y agoOr maybe he operates in a workplace where you can just pick up the phone at your desk and not worry about the implementation details of the underlying telephony infrastructure.
- eitally 16y agoThat was the point. I don't think there are any UCS platforms that encompass all possible good options, though, and people will always find ways to connect via the most direct endpoints jointly available.
- msg 16y agoYou obviously don't watch Oprah. My wife does. Oprah's been skyping in and out of viewer homes for months.
- noodle 16y agothey seem to be getting pushed pretty hard on new android phones. i know that a big marketing point of the droid x is skype international calling.
- caryme 16y agoOnly new Verizon android phones, if I understand correctly.
- noodle 16y agoverizon is the only one pushing out big new android phones right now, though, iirc.
- kissickas 16y agoThe HTC EVO is Sprint and is probably one of the most widely known new android phones.
- noodle 16y agoit is, but it has been on the market for almost 6 months. verizon is pushing out the new, heavily marketed phones right now.
- dmpayton 16y agoEh? The Evo was release June 4th, a hair over two months ago. Also, two Galaxy S phones were released in mid-July, less than one month ago.
- noodle 16y agoreally? crap, i must've misread something then. my fault. looks like you can use skype on most android phones anyway, though, just not as easily/freely as on verizon. regardless, though, i think my original point still stands. skype hasn't been stagnant, they're making some moves.