Post by cyber4eva on Sept 22, 2019 0:04:12 GMT
Skype has increasingly turned into an oversized mastodon, which has started to frustrate its users, even the most ardent ones. Each new update seems to be more inspired by Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp, thereby becoming an ineffective tool for people to communicate with. It has now become so bloated with features from other chat applications and has started to suffer from the same bugs, such as messages not being received and notifications not working, even when all parties have the latest Skype version. Its user hostile interface lead many to seek for an alternative.
While even the basic foundation of Skype still has many bugs, its engineers are continuing to add unnecessary features. This will surely lead to less and less people using Skype. It's a pity that such a great brand is being distroyed by incompetency and by not listening to the customers. The Skype team will regret these decisions and that day might come soon unless they seriosuly start to rethink and ask themselves the very basic question "What was and is Skype's main goal?"
Even if they manage to fix all those bugs, Skype won't be a bulletproof and reliable piece of software. It will continue to lose teenagers to other apps mainly due to ease-of-use and a larger userbase. The only people that eventually use Skype will be its own developer team, company staff because they are forced into it and users that can habitually tolerate this much incompetency.
There is a glimmer of hope, though, with something that is happening in Asia, where an app calle[/span]d Skype Lite is now being built for India to meet its daily messaging and video communication needs based on cell phone comunication rather than computer platforms. It is a small, fast and capable option that lets you send free text messages and make voice & video calls even under limited network conditions.
But unless this concept is rapidly launched world wide, Skype will lose its users to Facetime and other competitors at an alarming rate. And it doesn't make it any bbtter that Skype for Business is set to be phased out by July 31, 2021, so the future of Skype really looks gloomy. The only way it can survive is to remember its primary goals and listen to what its users want. But that has to happen quickly.
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While even the basic foundation of Skype still has many bugs, its engineers are continuing to add unnecessary features. This will surely lead to less and less people using Skype. It's a pity that such a great brand is being distroyed by incompetency and by not listening to the customers. The Skype team will regret these decisions and that day might come soon unless they seriosuly start to rethink and ask themselves the very basic question "What was and is Skype's main goal?"
Even if they manage to fix all those bugs, Skype won't be a bulletproof and reliable piece of software. It will continue to lose teenagers to other apps mainly due to ease-of-use and a larger userbase. The only people that eventually use Skype will be its own developer team, company staff because they are forced into it and users that can habitually tolerate this much incompetency.
There is a glimmer of hope, though, with something that is happening in Asia, where an app calle[/span]d Skype Lite is now being built for India to meet its daily messaging and video communication needs based on cell phone comunication rather than computer platforms. It is a small, fast and capable option that lets you send free text messages and make voice & video calls even under limited network conditions.
But unless this concept is rapidly launched world wide, Skype will lose its users to Facetime and other competitors at an alarming rate. And it doesn't make it any bbtter that Skype for Business is set to be phased out by July 31, 2021, so the future of Skype really looks gloomy. The only way it can survive is to remember its primary goals and listen to what its users want. But that has to happen quickly.
