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Once again somebody suffers because they compete directly with a core feature of a platform they use to distribute/market themselves. It wouldn't surprise me i
by lordmatty 16y ago
Once again somebody suffers because they compete directly with a core feature of a platform they use to distribute/market themselves.
It wouldn't surprise me if all (FB, Apple, Twitter, now RIM) but one (Android) digital platform curation teams acted in the same way. Of course, it is their platform, their right.
Android can afford not to because Google have a different business model.
- moxiemk1 16y agoAndroid seems to have the same problem with Skype: since Google's business model is different from the other mobile OS developers, it falls to the handset makers and carriers to make those sorts of ridiculous decisions. Verizon being the sole carrier with Skype will hurt Skype's adoption on mobile phones because if you want to talk to someone with an Android phone, they have to be a Verizon customer. Thus, it isn't a given that they will have the ability to Skype, so you use the mobile phone network, inferior as it is, instead.
- nedrichards 16y agoSole carrier with Skype in the USA.
- ergo98 16y agoAndroid seems to have the same problem with Skype The oddity of Skype is entirely Skype's making -- they saw a revenue model negotiating with carriers (the idea being "Get a Verizon Android phone because then you can get Skype"), so that's what they did. They control their own product, so there it is.