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Iirc, Skype offered cheap international phone calls (to POTS phone numbers) at the same time as skype-to-skype calls... so they were indeed useful even in isola
by swombat 18y ago
Iirc, Skype offered cheap international phone calls (to POTS phone numbers) at the same time as skype-to-skype calls... so they were indeed useful even in isolation.
Taking this screenshot as evidence:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Skype_1.4.0.58_alpha_for_Linux.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Skype_1.4.0.58_alpha_for_L...
Skype 1.4 already offered this. I'm pretty sure SkypeOut was available even before that, too.
- netsp 18y agoI think that's besides the point. Skype-out was not the method of solving the chicken-egg problem. Incentive to spread was the solution. We don't have to stick with Skype either. Facebook solved their (enormous) chicken-egg problem by targeting specific Universities.