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any word on Skype optimized for iPad 2?
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I'd like this, the iPhone version is ok when 2x, but just not good enough in the long run, there's soo much they could do with it, have contact list on the left on landscape with video on the right and text box below it... thats just off top of my head
wouldn't surprise me, they take forever doing updates, look at notifications, took them over a year!
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Skype never even got around to making a proper BlackBerry client. Only Verizon customers got it, no other carriers ever did.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's many months/years before Skype finally comes out with a iPad client.
Skype never even got around to making a proper BlackBerry client. Only Verizon customers got it, no other carriers ever did.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's many months/years before Skype finally comes out with a iPad client.
They never even got around to making a proper Android client either. Ironically Android users often try to make iOS look bad by saying video calling on iOS is limited on WiFi, and yet the iOS users have already been enjoying video-enabled Skype for a few months where as Android users are still waiting.
My expectation is that they'll probably release it fairly quickly but who knows. Skype works great with RetinaPad on a jailbroken iPad but without RetinaPad the quality is meh as we all know.
I think they really should however, I see a 3rd party coming along and creating something long before Skype will.
This was posted on the app section here and is supposingly quoted off Skypes blog by a Skype member:
Thanks everyone for your input on Skype for iPad. The release of the iPad 2 has sent our Skype development team back to the drawing board to completely redesign the user experience and feature set for a version of Skype befitting this innovative device.
We plan to reach Skype for iPad beta release 11 months from today. Hopefully Apple will have changed the App store rules to allow for beta software release by then, and hopefully they will not be shipping a newer iPad 3 model by then.
Yes, I have seen it. This message appears to be someone's joke (the person who sent it, had registered on the Skype forums a couple of days before the message had been sent).
I'm assuming that it's still possible to skype on an iPad, just not as good or smoothly as a native app would work?
If it's not possible my wife will not be happy when her iPad arrives (and that means my life won't be happy either).
If it's not possible my wife will not be happy when her iPad arrives (and that means my life won't be happy either).
Yes, Beardy man, you still can use the Skype app made for the iPhone, but bear in mind that it is not the native iPad application. Therefore, it will look quite rubbish on your iPad. You wife will probably be happy (but not too happy), but will have to wait till the release of the native iPad app in order to be entirely satisfied with her new iPad and Skype.
Once we get jailbreak going for the iPad 2, we should be able to use RetinaPad on it which will make Skype look a whole lot better. I use Skype on my iPad 1 with RetinaPad and it looks pretty decent.
Yeah, that stinks. The iPhone app works ok though. I'd just like an iPad 2 version that had quality more on par with Facetime. Facetime is of limited use to me as hardly any of my friends or family I talk to on Skype use Apple products (and the iPad is the only one I use as I'm no PCs as well).
Don't hold your breath..This is Skype you're talking about. They are one of the slowest / worst tech companies out there.
Thats technically not true... only when they were bought by eBay did they become "one of the slowest / worst tech companies out there"