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Redesigned Skype 5.0 for iPhone Launching Today
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The best way to update is to delete your existing app, then go into the 'App Store' app, go to the updates section, click on the 'Purchased' section, click on 'not on this phone', scroll down to to 'Skype' and click install.
This will install the latest version.
This will install the latest version.
Or just search for Skype in the App Store after deleting it and install it again (which should install the new version).
Companies like Skype and Apple should start getting busted for showing such unrealistically high-quality screenshots of their video call apps. Nobody gets a picture like that, even over ideal network and lighting conditions.
Just tried it. Had to delete and reinstall the new version. But awesome! No weird delays like there were before. Much much faster.
Glad to hear that. Do you delete your conversation history from time to time? I figure that might help. The old app often froze when opening my best friend's conversation. I have never cleared it in like 8 months of use.
No not at all. Makes sense that would speed it up. I just deleted the huge multi-people conversations. But now, doesn't matter. It's just fast.
The flat one is fine. The MS single-color everything blends together one. Like Office 2013.
Says one Macrumors poster to another.
Ha Ha... you really don't get the irony do you?
I've had terrible reliability with FaceTime to be honest. That's my only gripe with it. Quality and ease of use is definitely better, however, often when I call someone it rings about 7-8 times before they get their first ring. Also if I call two times in a row sometimes it doesn't even register; it'll be sitting there ringing and on the other end they're not even getting a call. This is with home WiFi, and FaceTime Audio by the way - and my network is fine.
Skype sucks.. thought it was the best after facetime.. but it barely connects to the other user.. have to try multiple times to do so.. n when it does its video quality is **** compared to other competitors out there.. Tango works really well for me.
How could that even be fashionable? I hate MS because their products suck, they keep intentionally violating standards to push their market power, and they bought Rare (maker of Goldeneye for N64) just to kill it off. The one time I wanted to use Windows in my VM in months, I had a horrible experience just trying to install a few things thanks to Windows "security". It's so bad that even free Linux-based stuff is better.
Skype, by the way, is only useful for friends who can't use anything else. It's got really bad AV quality and lots of glitches.
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I occasionally have to use Skype because one of my friends can't use anything else (Windows user, and FaceTime makes his iPad mini get hot). The app UI is already fine. The problem is that it always has some kind of glitch when I try to use it and has the worst sound and video quality I've ever seen.
Apple, what happened to your promise about FaceTime being an open standard? Do it already! FaceTime also has its problems, but it's pretty good, and I don't want to have to deal with Skype at all.
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It's worse than single-platform. It only works on a select few Apple OSs and devices. No support for Lion or earlier, and you're forced to do video chats only on Mountain Lion. You need Mavericks for the revolutionary new audio-only chat
. And now group chat ONLY in Yosemite. Worst of all, Apple shut it down for some iOS 6 users. All of this with ZERO integration with Messages, instead using a clunky, separate FaceTime app. What were they thinking??!
Apple, what happened to your promise about FaceTime being an open standard? Do it already! FaceTime also has its problems, but it's pretty good, and I don't want to have to deal with Skype at all.
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It's worse than single-platform. It only works on a select few Apple OSs and devices. No support for Lion or earlier, and you're forced to do video chats only on Mountain Lion. You need Mavericks for the revolutionary new audio-only chat
. And now group chat ONLY in Yosemite. Worst of all, Apple shut it down for some iOS 6 users. All of this with ZERO integration with Messages, instead using a clunky, separate FaceTime app. What were they thinking??!
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Just uninstall and reinstall it. That was the way I resolved that issue.
Just uninstall and reinstall it. That was the way I resolved that issue.
It seems like this update removed a few features from the app. Has anyone figured out how to look at the profile of a friend, delete a message, or edit a message?
It seems to me that ever since Microsoft acquired Skype, they've been removing features, and generally making it suck. I'm still annoyed that they removed the screen-sharing ability in a newer version of the desktop client, and then forced people to upgrade to that newer version.
I once really quite liked Skype. It's such a shame.
