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The problem is that there's no money in it. People won't pay for voice chat, it's an add on service for TV.
by sgt101 9y ago
The problem is that there's no money in it. People won't pay for voice chat, it's an add on service for TV.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoThat doesn't really explain the timeline of crippling and disabling it. Surely is cheaper to reskin and fix bugs than it is to, seemingly, recreate the whole thing every year.
- sgt101 9y agoI think that there's an existence tax for any software; if you don't spend a certain amount it just stops working. On top of that Skype is out in the wider world and so faces maintenance costs that a lot of enterprise software doesn't; ux updates, OS updates, security, interfaces to network kit and so on. If you have a nice pipe of revenue then this is all affordable and extra money can be sunk into making it good... but I suspect that Skype just doesn't have the revenue stream required to support that.