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The network effect is the big thing. Free Skype-to-Skype calling is a powerful incentive. Of course, ultimately exploiting that will depend on people using Sk
by stretchwithme 15y ago
The network effect is the big thing. Free Skype-to-Skype calling is a powerful incentive.
Of course, ultimately exploiting that will depend on people using Skype as their primary way to make calls. And somehow keeping other means of communication from supplanting the phone call.
And since 2010 has been referred to as the year we stopped talking to each other, this investment still may not work out. Even the most basic calling plans give most people way more minutes than they can use.
Will heavy users and international callers spend enough to make it work? Or will international calls one day be as seamlessly made as domestic ones?
- gregpilling 15y agoI think what you will find is a large increase in business users. Many of my friends are using Skype for international calls for their business - the same people who are seemingly locked into using MS Outlook. I use Google Apps myself. There is a strong small business contingent stuck on Outlook though, and if MS integrates with that, they should have no problem selling lots and lots of paid, higher quality business use minutes.