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Does it still not have cross platform video support?
How many people REALLY use video chat though? I mean more than once a year. Even among techies and businesspeople, video chat rarely seems to have an advantage over regular voice chat.
Hopefully Microsoft is swooping in to save Skype from the death-spiral it's been heading towards for the last few years. There really is a lot of room for improvement (software-wise) and I'm going to give MSFT the benefit of the doubt for the moment.
Can anyone shed light on this statistic from the press release: "With 170 million connected users..." Every article on Skype for the last 3 months has mentioned "600 million accounts". ( http://www.google.com/search?q=skype+600+million+accounts ) But I can't find an original source for that number; it seems everyone is quoting "industry estimates". Were the estimates on Skype's userbase wildly wrong, or is a "connect…
If you look at the SEC IPO filing[1], the most recent numbers (Dec 2010) are as follows: * 663M registered accounts * 145M connected users * 8M paying users The 170M number is the most recent update of the 145M connected users number. They define 'connected users' as active within a financial quarter I have spent the past few hours reading through the SEC filing. Skype is still growing very strongly[3], especially in…
This number is inflated by the fact that Skype requires you to login periodically and use any credit you have in order to keep it from expiring.
Why is it that I like Skype less on the other side of this announcement? It's not that I'm anti-MSFT; I just like communications software like Skype to be vendor neutral, competing on innovation and working to keep as many platforms + devices as possible at parity. I don't want someone to use Skype as leverage to try to get me to switch platforms. I'm more likely to drop Skype and be left looking for an alternative.
Hopefully Microsoft is swooping in to save Skype from the death-spiral it's been heading towards for the last few years. There really is a lot of room for improvement (software-wise) and I'm going to give MSFT the benefit of the doubt for the moment.
Why is it that I like Skype less on the other side of this announcement? It's not that I'm anti-MSFT; I just like communications software like Skype to be vendor neutral, competing on innovation and working to keep as many platforms + devices as possible at parity. I don't want someone to use Skype as leverage to try to get me to switch platforms. I'm more likely to drop Skype and be left looking for an alternative.
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Or telephones.
In my eyes this is Facebook's missed opportunity. Facebook is a sufficiently powerful brand to be able to negotiate exclusive deals with operators around the world to launch a VOIP phone relying on flat rate data only, replacing the address book with a subset of your social graph and SMS with Facebook Messaging. Such a move could have been very disruptive towards voice phone operators if paired with 170M desktop clie…
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Facebook has 650M active users. They always measure and cite active users, to their credit they do not fudge around with the numbers in their PR Skype is 170M active (quarterly, Facebook is monthly), and 680M total registered. A lot more people have given Skype their payment details than have Facebook - which results in Skype monetizing a lot better (but still not awesome monetization - yet, but it is improving). Edi…
How does one count users? I previously used a Skype account, but now I share a Skype phone with my girlfriend and her account. I'd guess there are plenty of families with one Skype account.
perhaps they should adjust their terminology and refer to them as 'accounts' rather than 'users'