Skype’s core competency is clearly marketing,that’s it.

Jair

By the way some of the Bellheads suggested the subscription model some 20 years back but was rejected by Ma invoking political reality.

Om just posted a piece Skype, VoIP Honeymoon over? related to what seems to be a growing dissatisfaction of the Skype user community around SkypeOut billing issues, and the quality of the service. He follows up on a CNET piece

COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Jonathan Boutelle’s home on the net

Skype is going to keep getting into bed with as many companies as possible.

This will increase the value in the buyers eyes.

Yes that’s right, they will sell skype…that was their true plan all along. They will sell it to an entity that doesn;t know anything about voip or the prolems they are having, all they will see is the same thing that skype has conditioned other people to see “THE NUMBER OF DOWNLOADS”, which people unlike OM, equate with success. We know it really isn;t so.

Did they want to een provide service? Why do people expect it?..from them I mean. They create, exploit and sell…thats what they do. And now I guarantee you will see even more companies crawling in their bed in an effort to create the illusion of success to their potential buyer.

I cant believe out of all the communication gurus you have that read this page OM that they don;t know this. They too have been put to sleep by the skype lullaby me thinks.

I am SURE that the creators of skype would have taken it as far as they could, i am sure they would have thought it quite cool that they created the end all be all in next generation communications, but how could they KNOW this would be the case. They are experts only in the field of disruption. They are novices in substance and deliverability.

So, predictios.

-even more partners come onboard
-even more writing takes place about skype
-henshall starts to wonder what voip company to focus on next or if he should even bother.
-people like OM, ISEN, Gedes, Aswath etc…stay just as they are, ‘in the know’.
-Skype sells.

craig

COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Stuart Henshall

I just got through reading Peter Cochrane’s pro Skype piece. http://comment.silicon.com/0,39024711,39127916,00.htm and suggest that it is hardly over. There is too much right. Skype should be more forthcoming however. It takes some digging to find out what’s creating some of the “account” issues. Similarly on the call issues. Some of these could be cleaned up real easily. Let’s just hope they do it.

I just left a comment on Om’s honeymoon blog post. What’s required are creative solutions, not 100’s of new call center operators. That would be yesterday’s model and entirely the wrong way to handle these issues. Instead engage you and me in repor…

I just left a comment on Om’s honeymoon blog post. What’s required are creative solutions, not 100’s of new call center operators. That would be yesterday’s model and entirely the wrong way to handle these issues. Instead engage you and…

COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Joey Derek

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Cnet has a bad story about Skype’s PC-to-real-phones service, SkypeOut. In my experience with them, I’ve only had one glitch: quality of calls to mobiles is sometimes bad for people receving the call (lots of noise on the line), while

After hearing more and more buzz surrounding Skype, I finally downloaded the software to see what it was all about. As far as VoIP providers go, I think Skype has a great business model – free calls t