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> Skype was a chat tool. > The market doesn't care about core CS. Yeah, implementing a peer-to-peer voice over IP with Skype's late 00s quality (which fell si
by golergka 9y ago
> Skype was a chat tool.
> The market doesn't care about core CS.
Yeah, implementing a peer-to-peer voice over IP with Skype's late 00s quality (which fell significantly since then) is not "core CS" and is just "plumbing", right.
- Bartweiss 9y agoSkype seems to have floundered not on lack of features, but on app stability and call quality. Honestly, it looks to me like an example of a technically-challenging product that failed by underperforming on core CS. I'm not sure why it would be framed as low-difficulty, except that consumer-facing tools tend to get written off as simple.