What went wrong with Skype?
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My memory says that both vent and teamspeak were way better for audio, but this was also a time where no one had a mic remotely close to the average you get today. Video, yes. But skype was really buggy and often did not even work
But skype was really buggy and often did not even work
Could you please specify the time of such assessment? Because somewhere between 2009 and 2012 Skype seemed flawless for me (of course, with ICQ before it I just didn't know what's reliable offline messages and message history, so there's that).
Voice calls worked well enough over like 45kbps. Leaving space for online game traffic (I think it was something like Burden of Crown over Hamachi, not too demanding). Of course my memory might make the experience cooler than it really was.
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My opinion is that Skype was killed by the smartphone. I used Skype from probably 2003-ish to 2008 as my only source of a home phone number to interact with people who had a phone number, as I did not have or want a cell phone or a landline. After that, I got a cell phone that people could call me on, replacing my need for skype a s aphone number source, and then various video chat and voice calling apps came along completely replacing the functionality I was using Skype for. Then when Microsoft bought it, that put a very sour taste in my mouth at the time, and there was no looking back.
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Skype felt heavy, no matter the spec of the computer it felt bloated and sluggish. I'm not trading thr article, but teams is and discord took Skype outback had their way and threw Skype in a dumpster when they were done.
Original pre-microsoft Skype was not AS bloaty.
It ran on my underpowered PC at the time with no issues.Several patches/versions/whatever after Ms gutted the p2p aspect and centralized the servers, it slowed waaaaaay the hell down.
Make of that anecdotal evidence what you will.
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Answer: Microsoft bought it.
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My memory says that both vent and teamspeak were way better for audio, but this was also a time where no one had a mic remotely close to the average you get today. Video, yes. But skype was really buggy and often did not even work
It's so long ago that my memory might fail me. Skype didn't need a hosted server and that made it accessible.
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Cant read the article due to paywall, but, nothing "went wrong" with skype, it was and has always been utter trash. Just having your username leaked was a security breach. Skype's only merit was it was the first easy to use video calling platform that combined text, audio and streaming in one.
Theres a reason why it was so easy to move my friends group off skype to discord right when discord launched, but I havent been able to convince that same group to move from discord.
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Original pre-microsoft Skype was not AS bloaty.
It ran on my underpowered PC at the time with no issues.Several patches/versions/whatever after Ms gutted the p2p aspect and centralized the servers, it slowed waaaaaay the hell down.
Make of that anecdotal evidence what you will.
I did use Skype until 2010. It was rough on an Intel atom netbook lol. And the. Again on a 3rd gen i7 mobile. And again on a 4th gen desktop. All the way through I've had the opposite experience.
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Google has a bigger graveyard, but it's mostly their stuff.
Microsoft and EA's graveyards are full of those they acquired.
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It's so long ago that my memory might fail me. Skype didn't need a hosted server and that made it accessible.
And then Discord arrived
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