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tliet
– December 16, 2007 10:22PM
Discuss it here
ddt
– May 11, 2011 06:33PM
But what financial gain does MS get from this? Skype doesn't make money. Leverage the tech into Windows or Office products? Drive up stock price?
ddt
tliet
– May 11, 2011 06:56PM
Indeed, it seems like it's 1999, 2007 again.
For me Skype has become the default chat client, in the enterprise where I work it's the de facto communications client. My usage is 95% chat, the occasional video chat and may 1% voip. Although I do have a EU wide all you can talk to fixed line package, the call quality is sub par. True voip providers give a much better quality, so I tend to use them instead. Skype makes about 50 euros a year off me, which is still 50 euros more than Apple will make with Facetime.
Cloudscout
– May 11, 2011 07:17PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Look at what Microsoft has been doing for the last several years. They're building up an IP warchest. This isn't about the Skype service itself. This is about intellectual property which Microsoft is going to use to try and bury Google, Apple et al.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– May 31, 2011 06:11PM
Simon
– May 31, 2011 09:55PM
You could put it into airplane mode
Dave Loudin
– June 14, 2011 11:51AM
Found where it's at!
The GSM iPhone4 is now available
unlocked! 16GB sans SIM goes for $649.
morganti
– June 30, 2011 05:32AM
Considering the high likelyhood of a iphone 4s/5 being a Worldphone, I dont think this is such a huge deal. Additionally, since the current GSM phone doesn't support 3G on T-Mobile... You pretty much get it for ... International Use... Which... I guess ATT Pay as you go might make a difference but really I dont see this as a big deal, other than maybe a subtle "we're coming for everyone" warning shot or something.
Morg "Man... reading tea leaves steeped in chicken bones is haaard..." anti
Cloudscout
– June 30, 2011 06:34AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
What's really strange is that AT&T actually owns quite a bit of AWS spectrum that has been sitting dormant since they wont it at auction. I believe they have intentionally left it dormant because they knew that building services on that frequency would actually help T-Mobile since it would mean that AT&T would have to push manufacturers to build phone that supported UMTS over all of the bands.
ddt
– July 01, 2011 09:39AM
oooooh. pretty.
fond memories of that new frontier of media.
ddt
El Jeffe
– July 01, 2011 01:28PM
What a journey.
They should use that to craft an Atlas Shrugged 'game'.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– July 24, 2011 10:47PM
Sister bought a Motorola Defy about 6 months ago. Motorola put out an Andriod update which virtually bricked it. She now has an iPhone.
John Willoughby
– July 25, 2011 07:31AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
She will be assimilated.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– July 25, 2011 04:08PM
She is very happy to be assimilated, believe me.
porruka
(Admin)
– August 10, 2011 11:39AM
John Willoughby
– August 10, 2011 12:08PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
I knew they'd do that when Apple first started trying to grab their 30%. It works through my company's firewall, too, which is something that their PC reader couldn't do.
One of the cool things (the other is downloading for offline reading) is that the Cloud Reader appears to count as only one device for the number of machines you are allowed to view DRM'd content on. So you can only have 5 devices, but if the Cloud Reader is one "device," then you can view your content on any Safari or Chrome browser. I wonder if this is a bug...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/10/2011 12:09PM by John Willoughby.
tliet
– August 10, 2011 07:28PM
But presumable only on reader at a time, plus, if you want to 'lend' books, you'd have to share your account details?
John Willoughby
– August 10, 2011 08:07PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
I don't want to let people access my account, so that's out. "Legal" Kindle lending is so messed up due to publisher restrictions that it isn't worth the hassle. My books are just for me, but I want to be able to access them anywhere. So any Safari or Chrome browser is now a window onto the 100+ Kindle books I own. It's nice not having every PC I use this way count against my 5 device limit.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– August 10, 2011 09:43PM
Well played Amazon.
Now that Apple is the 800lb Gorilla, it's time to start rooting for the little guys who stick it to them...
Apple or Apple legal will of course come up with some way to kill this feature.
Cloudscout
– August 11, 2011 06:41AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
I think it is probably like the Amazon video streaming. You can stream video from an unlimited number of web browsers but you can only have two of them active at any given time.
porruka
(Admin)
– August 15, 2011 08:24AM
Wow. No comments about Great Googl-y Moto-ly?
