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Let me understand this better: they centralized skype and decentralized software updates? Wow.

• Fogest 11y ago
  Spy on users via Skype, save money on updates. Bonus!
• dietrichepp 11y ago
  As I understand it, they centralized Skype because mobile phones couldn't be supernodes. (Not defending it, just explaining it.)
  • 0x0 11y ago
    And it would have been impossible to #ifdef out the supernode code in the mobile apps?
  • wmf 11y ago
    It's not quite that; phones can't even be classic Skype clients because holding a TCP connection open on mobile either doesn't work or drains battery. So they switched to using push messaging for incoming calls/messages, but AFAIK Apple/Google won't let random machines send push messages.