[casual_games] Skype game channel?

[Adam Martin]

On 18/05/07, Robert Headley <Rheadley at op-games.com> wrote:

> I disabled skype extras causes its bloated and uses too much memory ;)

>

> I don't see skype being any more significant than ICQ or other successful

> IMs have been.


FWLIW, there's a (couple of) world(s) of difference between Skype and
[insert IM here].

e.g.:

1. It's primarily a telephone replacement; that's part of why it was
bought for a couple of billion dollars. The perception alone that it
will replace the telecomms giants, who are worth a lot more than that,
would make it cheap at that price. It already has in the region of
10-50 million phone users.

2. It's the only free, mass-market, "safe" IM solution (with proper
end-to-end encryption), unless something major has changed since I
last did a corporate review of which IM clients we could allow people
to use...

I would be careful not to dismiss Skype too easily.

Adam