What if I told you there was a device that you already had that was capable of two-way voice and video communications in your pocket? ^_^
You still need to use some software to do that. Also, the screen is too tiny for VCs.
Skype Is Down. What Next?
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#22Have you tried Firefox Hello? Its pretty good.
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#23Webex, goto meeting. Use professional grade tools if you are a professional.
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#24Hangouts slows down my 15' i7 retina macbook.. I can play 3d games, edit 1080p video and browse with over 100 tabs open... but google hangouts will slow me down to a halt.
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#25Tox is a Free Software project whose goal is to free users from the grip of Proprietary instant messengers like Skype. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_%28protocol%29
Why have free alternatives to Skype not taken off? What's missing? It's just a 2 way video stream, right?
Plus asynchronous text chat.
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#26https://appear.in is free and does not require any installs or account creation. (disclaimer: I'm an engineer at appear.in)
What's your source of revenue? That needs to be clear before we can comfortably use a service for business purposes.
WebRTC is peer to peer. I'm going to guess that it's not particularly expensive to run the service.
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#27It's not easy to make a peer to peer system that can get past most corporate firewalls. So Skype is more complex than you'd guess. Your best bet is something using WebRTC.
most firewalls only let you go out via a proxy using port 443. Also port 80 can be used but then you have to wrap your chat protocol in HTTP which is not fun. Most firewalls do not let anything come in, so the software on the appliance/computer inside the corporate LAN has to initiate a connection and go outwards.
This implies that there cannot be a peer-to-peer setup since both peers-to-be can only go out and never connect to the other. And hence there is a server in between the two chat partners.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's your source of revenue? That needs to be clear before we can comfortably use a service for business purposes.
WebRTC is peer to peer. I'm going to guess that it's not particularly expensive to run the service.
Well...
> The appear.in team currently consists of 14 people, and operates as an independent startup within the incubator environment of Telenor Digital.
That's not cheap, and it doesn't sound like it's just a side-project to raise awareness for the parent company or something like that.