Skype – drifting?
It seems to be very, very quiet on the Skype development front. Nothing significant has come out of them for Mac for ages since they added video calls.
Skype is starting to look like the poor relation of other applications like iChat that can support video conferening with multiple participants. You would have thought this is a natural feature for Skype to add – so either it is presenting major technical problems to them, or they are not interested in it because it will not necessarily generate any new VOIP revenue for them.
If iChat was available on PC and the UI wasn’t such a confusing pile of surprisingly uncool crap for an Apple app, we and all my work colleagues would be switching over to it pronto. Not to mention the app sharing features of iChat. We need a solid "whiteboard" solution that lets us show the documents we are looking at locally to other participants in the video chat, to facilitate "round table" meetings when we’re not together.
Skype guys – what is going on? Your software seems to be stagnating. Have EBay drained you of all innovation? Are you chasing the VOIP cash without your eye on the wider picture of user loyalty?
These are not particularly advanced requirements, and it seems strange that Skype is behind the market here, having been an innovator for a long time.
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