Who needs Skype? Playbook video chat is amazing!
- Can't use skype's video codecs without their permission. & YES I think this is a MS/Skype issue. RIM has publicly stated that if skype were to say they would let Skype come to Blackberry that RIM would have an entire team at their door 48 hours later. RIM will even write the program for skype. Skype just has to let them.
Thus permission is not MS's/Skype's to grant.
If the PB is unable to make use of VP8 then Skype will never come.06-23-12 10:50 PMLike 0 - Of all my friends and acquaintances, I know exactly two who own Blackberries... and one of them shares this house with me. I know zero people who own a Playbook. Everyone I would like to VC with owns iPads and iPhones and have Skype installed on them. That 78 million number doesn't impress me... it represents, what, a whopping 6% of the overall market?
I use SKYPE for business purposes as well as social... and contacts run in to hundreds here too.06-23-12 10:57 PMLike 0 - If we don't get Skype then we need RIM to make a videochat app for Windows that ties into their Playbook Video Chat servers, so people on Windows machines can talk to Playbook owners from their PC and vice-versa.
Make the videochat app so that at least one person has to have a Playbook... don't allow the servers to be used by people on PC to PC chat only.
This way I can talk to family without a Playbook, but when they see how cool it is, they may want to buy one. And unless you talk to a Playbook owner, nobody else on a PC can use it as a regular PC to PC chat app, so it will keep traffic fairly low but promote Playbook usage.
Come on RIM, why not go with this idea? That will kill Skype for good and who needs them anyways. Make a chat app for PC that I can give to my family members so they can talk to my Playbook!
Sent from my BlackBerry 9810 using Crackberry Tapatalk Forum appCracklen likes this.06-24-12 12:03 AMLike 1 - If we don't get Skype then we need RIM to make a videochat app for Windows that ties into their Playbook Video Chat servers, so people on Windows machines can talk to Playbook owners from their PC and vice-versa.
Make the videochat app so that at least one person has to have a Playbook... don't allow the servers to be used by people on PC to PC chat only.
This way I can talk to family without a Playbook, but when they see how cool it is, they may want to buy one. And unless you talk to a Playbook owner, nobody else on a PC can use it as a regular PC to PC chat app, so it will keep traffic fairly low but promote Playbook usage.
Come on RIM, why not go with this idea? That will kill Skype for good and who needs them anyways. Make a chat app for PC that I can give to my family members so they can talk to my Playbook!
Sent from my BlackBerry 9810 using Crackberry Tapatalk Forum app06-24-12 04:42 PMLike 0 - If we don't get Skype then we need RIM to make a videochat app for Windows that ties into their Playbook Video Chat servers, so people on Windows machines can talk to Playbook owners from their PC and vice-versa.
Make the videochat app so that at least one person has to have a Playbook... don't allow the servers to be used by people on PC to PC chat only.
This way I can talk to family without a Playbook, but when they see how cool it is, they may want to buy one. And unless you talk to a Playbook owner, nobody else on a PC can use it as a regular PC to PC chat app, so it will keep traffic fairly low but promote Playbook usage.
Come on RIM, why not go with this idea? That will kill Skype for good and who needs them anyways. Make a chat app for PC that I can give to my family members so they can talk to my Playbook!
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You want to expand the market RIM doesn't have by forcing non-RIM product users to download, install, sign-up and use this mythical exclusive software.
This software is going to a massive hit! Everyone knows folk with BB's or PB's, it will be downloaded by millions of users every hour so that us PB/BB owners can finally reach out and touch somebody.
You also want me to convince a potential client to jump through these loops in order to chat to me on my professional grade tablet for what might be a one off 3 minute chat.
The PB is pretty exclusive right now, we don't want to make it inclusive at all do we? What would we do that for?06-24-12 06:14 PMLike 0 - Hi everyone,
I am the founder of a video chat service ; Free Video Chat - Quick & Simple | FaceFlow
FaceFlow is currently available from the web (requires flash). We have several Playbook users who are impressed by how well it works in their browser, you may want to check it out if you own a Playbook.
We are also working on an app for the upcoming devices that will run BB10, we'll also create an app specifically for the Playbook, but until I'd advise Playbook users to use our web-based app (video conferencing with up to 4 people, all free)
Thank you!
DanyAltarocks likes this.11-13-12 03:05 PMLike 1 - Who needs skype? The people who virtually have no acquaintances that own a pkaybook?Knightcrawler likes this.11-14-12 05:28 PMLike 1
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- like most of us we are using a PC or laptop with Skype
I travel a lot. mostly overseas and I run my business calls on SKYPE and have a Skype out Number
If PB with BB10 has no SKYPE I will move to an other platform, I can,t afford to loose business, if business friendly RIM does not move
at the moment I forward all my calls to Comwave, which has no voicemailbox, or I forward to my Vonage, where I get a printed email message
Calling back to my message I use my BB 9730, turning off my cell connection, using my WIFI option so I can call back to the US
Other calls I must use my Comwave app
Cumbersome01-09-13 05:16 PMLike 0 - It's not the quality of the program that's the problem, it's the (lack of) popularity.
Great video conference software isn't very useful if there is nobody on the other end to talk to. Nobody else I know has a Playbook.
Skype is the "industry standard" for VOIP and video conferencing. Without it, Playbook is cut off from the rest of the world in this regard.02-07-13 01:43 AMLike 0 - OK, so I agree: Video Chat works very well; good quality sound and video. But, as is the case with Ichat in Apple, it has the limitation that only Playbook users can use. Is Skype the answer?. Well, my experience with Skype is two fold:
- It runs on most operative systems (pretty obvious)
- Quality is nowhere near Ichat or Video chat.
Solution to the problem?: open Video chat to other systems. Whether this is possible or not is beyond me.curve-20 likes this.02-07-13 05:33 AMLike 1 - I am very impressed with the PlayBook's video chat but am also short of contacts. Apart from the Faceflow alternative mentioned above, Comwave's free app also allows video chatting to any phone with video capability, other portable device with the Comwave app installed or over the web using computers. Unfortunately, the Comwave website does charge a fee though I don't know what it is.
I believe you can dial out from Skype so one can dial out to the Playbook's phone number through the Comwave app.02-07-13 03:40 PMLike 0 - It's not the quality of the program that's the problem, it's the (lack of) popularity.
Great video conference software isn't very useful if there is nobody on the other end to talk to. Nobody else I know has a Playbook.
Skype is the "industry standard" for VOIP and video conferencing. Without it, Playbook is cut off from the rest of the world in this regard.02-07-13 03:44 PMLike 0 - Ineed skyp because my wife in america does not have a pb.
why can't skep do version for the playbook?-how hard can it be?-is would pay for it.02-16-13 04:01 PMLike 0 -
Just give BBRY more time. Of course it is not likely to be a real threat to Skype. But I hope more PBs enter the market to make it a force to be reckoned with.02-16-13 04:09 PMLike 0
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