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Skype Is Dead. What Happened?

6 points by HR01 2y ago

ChrisArchitect 2y ago
Lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202052 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202052
ggm 2y ago
First decent double-NAT transiting protocol. Remarkably good loss/jitter management. Simple. Direct phone analogies for many functions. Simply OBE for so many things now in Teams, Meet, Zoom, Although again WebEX broke the ground here. My weekly family catchup videocall will have to move now, but there's no desire to make it zoom. all the crap which comes along for the ride. Estonia did good.
low_tech_love 2y ago
What a pity. To compare Skype’s functionality, user experience, satisfaction, and just overall design with Teams is almost heresy. I’ve never met one person who uses Teams willingly; every single person who ever invited me to a Teams meeting has mentioned they hate it, but are forced to use it by their organization.
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tapper 2y ago
I loved Skype back in the day. Me and my wife would use Skype kasts and chat to people from all over the world. It was good with my screen reader all so. After the buyout it all went down hill. O yeah and teams is a fucking pile!
- timeon 2y ago
  Skype went downhill for me after it was acquired by Microsoft with many paper-cuts like account management and constant re-designs.
muddi900 2y ago
Answer: Microsoft happened.
aurareturn 2y ago
For non-US people, Whatsapp became the default for people to talk with friends and family. Slowly, Whatsapp started becoming the way to talk to businesses such as ordering something or support. Then businesses started talking to each other on Whatsapp. Whatsapp cornered the talk outside of your company market. You have all your contacts on Whatsapp. Geo-niche chat apps such as iMessage in US, Line in Japan, Viber in certain eastern european countries fill the rest of the market. Next, Teams and Slack integrated calls and video chat directly and cornered the talk inside your company market.
- beardyw 2y ago
  > For non-US people what? Edit - ok, now I understand. The comma was just confusing (and unwanted).

6 points by HR01 2y ago

Lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202052 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202052

ggm 2y ago

First decent double-NAT transiting protocol. Remarkably good loss/jitter management. Simple. Direct phone analogies for many functions. Simply OBE for so many things now in Teams, Meet, Zoom, Although again WebEX broke the ground here. My weekly family catchup videocall will have to move now, but there's no desire to make it zoom. all the crap which comes along for the ride. Estonia did good.

low_tech_love 2y ago

What a pity. To compare Skype’s functionality, user experience, satisfaction, and just overall design with Teams is almost heresy. I’ve never met one person who uses Teams willingly; every single person who ever invited me to a Teams meeting has mentioned they hate it, but are forced to use it by their organization.

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tapper 2y ago

I loved Skype back in the day. Me and my wife would use Skype kasts and chat to people from all over the world. It was good with my screen reader all so. After the buyout it all went down hill. O yeah and teams is a fucking pile!

timeon 2y ago
Skype went downhill for me after it was acquired by Microsoft with many paper-cuts like account management and constant re-designs.

muddi900 2y ago

Answer: Microsoft happened.

aurareturn 2y ago

For non-US people, Whatsapp became the default for people to talk with friends and family. Slowly, Whatsapp started becoming the way to talk to businesses such as ordering something or support. Then businesses started talking to each other on Whatsapp. Whatsapp cornered the talk outside of your company market. You have all your contacts on Whatsapp. Geo-niche chat apps such as iMessage in US, Line in Japan, Viber in certain eastern european countries fill the rest of the market. Next, Teams and Slack integrated calls and video chat directly and cornered the talk inside your company market.

beardyw 2y ago
> For non-US people what? Edit - ok, now I understand. The comma was just confusing (and unwanted).