I feel like what a lot of people miss about the decline of Skype was the move to smartphones. Chat, audio and video tech built for PCs with wired connections al

I feel like what a lot of people miss about the decline of Skype was the move to smartphones. Chat, audio and video tech built for PCs with wired connections all needed to be replaced with stuff that accounted for the growing number of mobile devices. I remember the brief period where I tried to use AIM on my early Android phone, and it turned it into a skillet, basically, and the battery life was cut by hours just by running AIM. It's not a coincidence that _every_ chat app (text, audio, video) that was popular before smartphones were replaced by ones that were written after smartphones became popular, and it makes no sense to analyze Skype outside of that larger trend.