Which ones? There are guidelines that say what an app can look like?
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Redesigned Skype 5.0 for iPhone Launching Today
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I would really wanna know how much u lot waste/send per month of mobile data.. for personal use
Mobile carrier have a large net, and u all are the fish they catch...
I'm betting $500 + easy
With video in particular, mobile carriers have never had it so good.
Mobile carrier have a large net, and u all are the fish they catch...
I'm betting $500 + easy
With video in particular, mobile carriers have never had it so good.
FYI, FaceTime IS better than Skype, but Skype is way more convienient cause its cross platform.
Or maybe they have to use Windows every day, and have homicidal tendencies because of it.
When you open the app, upper left where it says "Recent" followed by "favorites" scroll til you get "People" then below it tap all and change it to Online. Worse decision ever to hide it IMHO
If the world was perfect, yes, FaceTime would be app but I use Skype with my friend who just moved to New Mexico not long ago because he has a phone that uses that mobile OS system called Android. You guys herd of it before? 
The rest of us? LOL I stopped using Skype for years. Slow, buggy, laggy and ugly.
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If the world was perfect, yes, FaceTime would be app but I use Skype with my friend who just moved to New Mexico not long ago because he has a phone that uses that mobile OS system called Android. You guys herd of it before?
Nope
In all seriousness there are plenty of cross-platform apps for audio/video calling that are better than skype.
Yes it is like that thing called Facetime/iMessage and I think you mean owned* not made by.
Skype wasn't created by Microsoft. It was created by Skype and that was most recently was purchased by Microsoft.
Hopefully if they do they will allow the deletion of conversation history, which they seem to have removed in the latest iOS version.
I'm only using Skype now because Apple never added the group calling feature to FaceTime (and doesn't appear to have any plans to) and buried iChat's group calling feature so deeply into iMessage it's impossible to figure out how to make it work anymore if it actually does.
Plus, products designed by Microsoft have terrible interfaces. But I need group chat. Thank a lot, Apple.
Plus, products designed by Microsoft have terrible interfaces. But I need group chat. Thank a lot, Apple.
No, it's really nothing like FaceTime since it works with multiple platforms.
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.
I heard their mouses are very good and ergonomic. Doesn't the magic trackpad hurt your wrist?
Looks and functions horribly. Reminds me of the windows phone interface with no iOS user interface consistency...
Can't even swipe left/right for iOS function. Way to go Microsoft, emphasis on the soft.
Can't even swipe left/right for iOS function. Way to go Microsoft, emphasis on the soft.
Trackpads are considered to be quite ergonomic and are seen more or less on the same level as trackballs, all of which are seen as better than typical mice.
No. It's mostly finger movement. Not much wrist movement going on. It's why I switched.
Do not upgrade !!!
There are so many issues with the new App. I seriously suggest nobody upgrade (downgrade more like) to the new version.
- no way to delete old chats
- no way to access address book on phone
- images now shared via Microsoft servers (privacy issues...).
- no way to send other files anymore.. PDF etc.
- contacts now not listed with "online" users first.
- slower than old version
- crashes
- all criticism is being deleted on Skype Facebook page.. They are policing any criticism of the new version. Have a look at the skype own forum which shows all the issues found by users so far. Until they delete these.
etc. etc.
Microsoft is trying to make the free version less useful. Presumably there will be a pro version for money.. which will add the features back in again.
I urge all users not to update and advice experience with alternatives.
I urge Microsoft to come clean with their strategy so that we can all plan for the future now and not be left in the dark. What is Microsoft planning? Are we to be charged for the app? If so please tell us know.
There are so many issues with the new App. I seriously suggest nobody upgrade (downgrade more like) to the new version.
- no way to delete old chats
- no way to access address book on phone
- images now shared via Microsoft servers (privacy issues...).
- no way to send other files anymore.. PDF etc.
- contacts now not listed with "online" users first.
- slower than old version
- crashes
- all criticism is being deleted on Skype Facebook page.. They are policing any criticism of the new version. Have a look at the skype own forum which shows all the issues found by users so far. Until they delete these.
etc. etc.
Microsoft is trying to make the free version less useful. Presumably there will be a pro version for money.. which will add the features back in again.
I urge all users not to update and advice experience with alternatives.
I urge Microsoft to come clean with their strategy so that we can all plan for the future now and not be left in the dark. What is Microsoft planning? Are we to be charged for the app? If so please tell us know.
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funny how they address so many issues so quickly, it's like they release a beta because they don't feel like paying their staff to test but they just don't say it is a beta
kind of like win 8.0
Touch Office out first for iOS (before EITHER WinPhone or Windows 8.1 itself, fer cryin' out loud). And may be on Android next.
Nadella's mantra is apparently/and pretty much confirmed in his own words bringing software with mass market potential to the platforms with large viable markets first, whether Office, Skype or otherwise...
...where WinPhone is a small potatoes market at the moment (yeah, yeah, #2 in Italy. Cool. If you're an MS fan in Italy.)
...and if he'd been CEO two years ago, not sure the Nokia purchase would've been made, nor that he's personally that committed to the Surface line...
...i.e., think he's aiming more at offering ubiquitous software in a post-Windows hegemony world more than in re-creating an MS-centric "devices and services company" in an Apple-ish mode that Ballmer started pursuing...