Skype Email Campaign -- AMAZING SUCCESS!!!! Results!!!!!
- To all those saying writing these emails would not help get the app over to the PB, I have one question to ask: what's the 'backlash' they are afraid of? Skype not designing the app, which is where we stand anyways? Or is it not releasing the app if they've already put in the man hours to design it?Thunderbuck likes this.02-03-12 01:59 PMLike 1
- ThunderbuckRetired ModeratorI have a sneaky suspicion that Skype has had developers on this. It's a matter of waiting until there are enough PlayBook users out there to justify supporting an app (each distinct platform incurs a little overhead).
One other thing to consider: RIM's Video Chat app is going to get considerably easier to use in 2.0. For instance, the PIM will scan the e-mails in your contacts and see if it recognizes them as BB IDs, so inviting a user to a Video Chat will become a no-brainer. With this kind of seamlessness, there's a chance that BB Vid Chat will have a much bigger uptake than it has now.
Two implications for that: 1) Skype will have some competition on the PB that it doesn't really have now and 2) Many of the users demanding Skype now might not care quite as much...02-03-12 02:38 PMLike 0 - I like Video Chat as much as the next PB user... but that's it. It only works for PB users. Skype gives a much broader group of people to chat with. I only (personally) know about 3 people with a PB right now... that's cool and video chat with them all the time! But I know dozens of people on Skype. Skype is not worried about Video Chat, nor is BlackBerry concerned with having Skype as Competition. BBVid Chat is kinda like BBM but we all still use SMS and IM+, right?02-03-12 02:52 PMLike 0
- Yes the same thing was going through my mind.... 2,000+ emails is good, but why call it a success and of all things tell people to quit emailing them? wouldnt it be more effective if 5k-10k emails flooded their email boxes? Or, reading between the lines, were there threats issued regarding lawsuits? Im sensing that there were warnings given possibly with legal letterheads.
And on that note, if left at 2,000 give or take, i got news for you... thats not enough. The company could easily read that as only a few thousand in a market of millions are interested... and behind closed doors in board meetings that could easily be twisted as "lack of interest" and "proof they shouldnt bother with the playbook platform".
Thats what I want to know.... why the emphasis on telling people to quit emailing them?02-03-12 03:53 PMLike 4 - please post any replies from Skype. As a participant, I really would like to know their responses from time to time.02-03-12 05:00 PMLike 0
- I think no response can be good. I think they knew ahead of time of our e-mail campaign and they could have made an auto response stating that they were not developing it. I think the fact that they have not answer saying no is a good thing. At least I hope it is.anon(3896606) and zethaaron like this.02-03-12 07:29 PMLike 2
- I don't care to much for Skype but I think you guys have gone about this the wrong way. It would have been better to send the 2000+ emails to RIM and have Saunders deal with the guys at Skype by showing them some numbers.
I fear all you have done is pissed off a couple of execs but kudos for trying.02-03-12 10:17 PMLike 0 - No execs were pissed off but the secretary's very well may have been.
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- ok, so, call this a crazy thought but, ya'll DO realize that skype on verizon is partially integrated into their voice system right? like, the IM side of skype works like normal but a call on skype is actually a phonecall, not a data call....that COULD be why you don't see skype on other carriers....I don't know if that's the reason it isn't out there for sure, but, I do know that from what I've seen on my own bills, that's how skype calls work on vzw.02-05-12 01:48 AMLike 0
- ok, so, call this a crazy thought but, ya'll DO realize that skype on verizon is partially integrated into their voice system right? like, the IM side of skype works like normal but a call on skype is actually a phonecall, not a data call....that COULD be why you don't see skype on other carriers....I don't know if that's the reason it isn't out there for sure, but, I do know that from what I've seen on my own bills, that's how skype calls work on vzw.02-05-12 06:50 AMLike 0
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- diegoneiRetired Mod & Ambassadorok, so, call this a crazy thought but, ya'll DO realize that skype on verizon is partially integrated into their voice system right? like, the IM side of skype works like normal but a call on skype is actually a phonecall, not a data call....that COULD be why you don't see skype on other carriers....I don't know if that's the reason it isn't out there for sure, but, I do know that from what I've seen on my own bills, that's how skype calls work on vzw.
We know the PB can do voip (imo.im anyone?) and we want Skype (if it happens, this means Skype on BB10 as well).02-05-12 04:11 PMLike 0 - ok, so, call this a crazy thought but, ya'll DO realize that skype on verizon is partially integrated into their voice system right? like, the IM side of skype works like normal but a call on skype is actually a phonecall, not a data call....that COULD be why you don't see skype on other carriers....I don't know if that's the reason it isn't out there for sure, but, I do know that from what I've seen on my own bills, that's how skype calls work on vzw.
Now for Blackberry there's another possible reason why it's restricted only to specific carriers, also using their voice networks, and that is the BIS. Yes, our beloved secure BIS service I theorize could be what's keeping us from getting Skype readily available on each and every Blackberry phone worldwide (though I sincerely hope NOT the Playbook because it's a moot point). The BIS compresses down data significantly in its transmission so that it is able to reach a device faster and work better over 2.5G and low-speed 3G networks, as well as save each and every client on bandwidth. It may also encrypt data transmissions (someone please let me know if I'm wrong on that, just going from what I've been made to understand). Having to code around the BIS and the encryptions may have been just a bit much for Skype to really want to invest in, and RIM may also have very well realized the security breaches that could have happened and talked Skype into backing off of such an app for voice use. Let's not forget, RIM is all about security of our data within its servers and throughout its transmissions. Another probable reason why the companies that have Skype apps out for Blackberry do the voice calls over their voice networks and not over 3G (or Wi-Fi simply for support of pre-OS6 devices).
Again, though, this shouldn't affect the Playbook because it uses strictly wi-fi. The only thing potentially keeping skype from pushing out an app right off the bat may be a lack of access to the camera and microphones within the Playbook OS if I read the comments of another poster correctly (back in the original thread of the petition?).
.... if I'm wrong on any of that, someone please let me know? Would rather be corrected and learn better .02-05-12 07:48 PMLike 0 -
edit: at least not anything going through the Blackberry or Android versions of the software on Verizon on the 3G (read: NOT LTE) network. I believe the Verizon iPhone even has a different version of Skype available specifically for use over the voice network...Last edited by jonno_atamaniuk; 02-05-12 at 07:51 PM.
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