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Redesigned Skype 5.0 for iPhone Launching Today

Keane16 said:
Cross platform and group chatting are the big strengths fro Skype. If you require these features, then it's a no brainer.
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Group chat (at least, audio) is coming to iOS 8 / Yosemite.

I'd love to use FT all the time, but the lack of cross-platform kills it. Apple will never budge on that, sadly.
 
Cougarcat said:
Group chat (at least, audio) is coming to iOS 8 / Yosemite.

I'd love to use FT all the time, but the lack of cross-platform kills it. Apple will never budge on that, sadly.
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Yup, looking forward to the addition of group chat. :)

Perhaps that's one of the reasons that (in my eyes at least) FaceTime is better - less hardware combinations to support, higher minimum hardware requirements etc. If Apple were to open it up perhaps the fact they would have to support a wide array of devices and platforms would cause overall quality to suffer.

I'm lucky that the main few people I regularly FaceTime own at least 1 iOS device.
 
dumastudetto said:
Facetime is infinitely better than Skype. It just is.
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I agree but not everyone using an Apple device, so Skype is a better solution for people who has ''cross-platform'' friends. And I can't see Apple making a FaceTime for competitor ecosystems. Umm... Maybe a cheap device that can only run iTunes, FaceTime, iMessage.
 
Cougarcat said:
I'd love to use FT all the time, but the lack of cross-platform kills it. Apple will never budge on that, sadly.
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I seem to remember when it was announced Steve Jobs stood on the stage and said...

"Now FaceTime is based on a lot of open standards: H.264 video, AAC audio, and a bunch of alphabet soup acronyms. And we’re going to take it all away. We’re going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we’re going to make FaceTime an open industry standard."​

Come on Apple, what happened with that?
 
Keane16 said:
I have to agree with dumastudetto. The quality of calls, ease of call initiation, not having to ensure a contact is online/available - all make FaceTime better for me. I dropped Skype as my go to solution when FaceTime was introduced.

Skype has certainly proven itself, but that doesn't make it better for everyone.

Cross platform and group chatting are the big strengths fro Skype. If you require these features, then it's a no brainer.

I have to admit it's been a few months since I last used Skype but the quality was just not as good as FaceTime (both audio and video) when making calls iOS to iOS. This may not be the case via desktop - it's not something require so I've not tested.
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The added worry of wondering if your contact has an iPhone/iPad/Mac.

Where as pretty much every device has a Skype app. Even if they don't have it, asking "Can you make account?" Is easier than asking "Can you go and buy a $700 smartphone or a $1000 Mac?"
 
rayyu882 said:
I deleted the app and re-download it off my purchased list, even it shown as version 4.17.3, after install, it has the 5.0 interface.
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I just did the same on my phone and it worked ;)

PS : In the purchased list it showed 5.0 for me .
 
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They say it still has the great battery performance as before... While the only thing that Skype should fix before doing anything else is the battery issue. If I stay online on Skype for chat purpose the phone is half battery before I get to work and out of battery by noon. While Facebook chat can stay on all day long... So all in all skype is useless except for logging in once you need to use it.
 
DaveMcM76 said:
I seem to remember when it was announced Steve Jobs stood on the stage and said...

"Now FaceTime is based on a lot of open standards: H.264 video, AAC audio, and a bunch of alphabet soup acronyms. And we’re going to take it all away. We’re going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we’re going to make FaceTime an open industry standard."​

Come on Apple, what happened with that?
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I believe they ran into licensing issues. Though nothing would preclude them from releasing their own apps.
 
Dr McKay said:
The added worry of wondering if your contact has an iPhone/iPad/Mac.

Where as pretty much every device has a Skype app. Even if they don't have it, asking "Can you make account?" Is easier than asking "Can you go and buy a $700 smartphone or a $1000 Mac?"
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If I was silly enough to suggest someone buys hardware for just to use FaceTime it'd be an ~$200 iPod Touch. Nobody is suggesting that happens. I was simply saying FaceTime is better for me.

Also not sure about you, but I mostly call video call people I know fairly well. So I know before calling them whether they have an iOS device. There is very little "worry". If I know they don't have an iOS device/Mac I fire up Skype/Line etc. and use that.

I'm not exclusive to any one app. But if I know the contact can receive FaceTime calls I currently go that way as it's a superior experience.
 
It's 2014 and their old app didn't even support telling you i someone was typing a message. I doubt they'll even had added that for Skype 5.0
 
r3m1 said:
Keeping telling yourself that ... over and over again ... while the rest of us will use something that has proven itself across many platforms.
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...proven itself to be ridiculously buggy and full of usability issues, that is.
 
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Leonard1818 said:
Skype?

That's the thing that is like facetime but is made by that company we all hate right? Bros?
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No, it's really nothing like FaceTime since it works with multiple platforms. :D

As for MS, personally I don't hate MS. Bored by it. Yes. Frustrated sometimes? Absolutely. Honestly, before I bought a trackpad the best input device I ever owned was a MS thumb trackball.
 
mozumder said:
Will it allow for reliable receiving of calls this time?

I tried to use Skype as a VoIP phone with an old iPhone, but it only received Skype calls if the phone was active with the Skype app in the foreground... lame.
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Really, well duh. Imagine it only doing what it was supposed to do. Imagine having to have the app on for it to work, how screwed up is that.
 
WTF MS done with Skype? You can't delete chat history, still getting push notifications from blocked users, pictures are stored now in cloud, so who has not the newest version of skype has to login with skype account via browser to view picture. Futhermore, you won't see friends if they also using older skype version. And you can't edit messages....
 
Chupa Chupa said:
As for MS, personally I don't hate MS. Bored by it. Yes. Frustrated sometimes? Absolutely. Honestly, before I bought a trackpad the best input device I ever owned was a MS thumb trackball.
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I'm pretty sure most MS haters are probably hating them because it is (was?) fashionable...
 
Does anybody know how t delete history in the new iPhone App? I wish all of these people with messaging apps (including Apple) would allow for "All Device History Delete". Really a hassle to delete a conversation on 3-4 devices.
 
Sometimes I actually have to wonder if a group of people here would actually defend Apple if the iPhone only ever was able to call other people with iPhones.
 
I haven't used my Skype account in over three years, I don't even remember my username, let alone my password. :p
 
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