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Re: Skype 5 for Mac

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Post by rtaycher » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 6:12 AM UTC

dman wrote: post #84

raganwald wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if you realize that because the Macs have a "tiny market share" (as you describe it) it's just easier (cheaper, too) to produce a re-chromed version of your software rather than writing a completely new interface just for those users. Considering that I wrote that companies might think it's cheaper, I'm going to go with yes, I realize that companies might think it's cheaper. Likewise, it's also cheaper for P…

The problem with the Mac way is that its all consuming. You completely need to reorient and reshape your world view to get past the uncanny valley of your typical Mac fan. No matter how much you polish your QT / Gtk/ Swing UI it will not pass muster. On the Mac platform native apps seem to dominate - eg textmate vs jedit/emacs/vim, omnigraffle vs visio, parallels vs virtualbox / vmware. Which suggests that if you are…

Having downloaded it I can't seem to find a trace of any pascal but plenty of nib files.

Re: Skype 5 for Mac

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Post by Angostura » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 11:19 AM UTC

emehrkay wrote: post #31

poutine wrote: post #15

I refuse to upgrade to Skype 5 after trying it once and accidentally upgrading a second time when the app tried to auto upgrade itself. The horrid UI combined with Skype's stated desire to bring ads to the client makes me search for an alternative which sadly there isn't. In a business setting I would say that 90% of the time Skype is used as an IM client because of its working persistant groups and functional file t…

What's missing from skype that isnt provided by AIM or GTalk? Is it the ability to make phone calls?

Cross-platorm decent quality video conferencing with ease of set-up.

Re: Skype 5 for Mac

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Post by guygurari » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 1:31 PM UTC

ootachi wrote: post #107

Apocryphon wrote: post #76

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I'm not talking about just iTunes and Skype, though. I can think of several consumer programs that have become more bloated with worse UIs over time- AIM, Ad-Aware, Windows Media Player, Firefox... It seems rather inevitable.

What do you dislike about Firefox's UI? I could never go back from Firefox 4 to Firefox 2 or 3.

The orange menu button. I find it distracting.