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HOT TAKE: The things that drove Skype to change from the Golden Age Of Skype were largely market-driven things like the rise of the smartphone that killed prett
by cwyers 8y ago
HOT TAKE: The things that drove Skype to change from the Golden Age Of Skype were largely market-driven things like the rise of the smartphone that killed pretty much every other popular communications platform at the time (AIM is dead now, too) and there is no evidence that an independent Skype would have weathered the market shift any better than a Microsoft-owned Skype did.
- Rjevski 8y agoDisagreed. Skype worked perfectly for me on smartphone, and the few quirks could've been patched without screwing it up completely. I feel like Skype was ahead of its time, it was essentially a cross-platform iMessage & FaceTime that was mainstream. Had Microsoft not fucked it up we'd still be happily using it.