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Mar 30, 09 - 09:26 am Comment from: Always Right

day off

Mar 30, 09 - 09:32 am Comment from: macaholic

tell me again how Skype makes money?

Hope its snappy

How does skype make money you ask ?...
Oprah

The one-app-at-a-time limitation probably won't apply once iPhone 3.0 OS comes out in a couple of months. The background notifications will probably be sufficient to alert you to an incoming call. That will make skype on iPhone a real value (though it's OK as far as it goes even now).

Mar 30, 09 - 10:04 am Comment from: Sarasota

Skype makes money when you need to call an actual phone number. They charge $99 for unlimited calls and you get your own phone number, too.

What kind of adapter would one need to use a phone headset with an iPod Touch?

Ok, I had to ask...my wife uses Skype on my Macbook to call China to family and friends...it works well, except during heavy traffic holidays, especially the Chinese New Year. We also have a version 1 iPod touch. Is there some kind of a mic rig up that would work for this??

Mar 30, 09 - 10:12 am Comment from: Predrag

Skype makes money on SkypeOut. Good number of Skype users use it often from their desks. It's cheaper than most mainstream long distance carriers out there; even the US ones.

Mar 30, 09 - 10:14 am Comment from: Predrag

CD:

You can buy an iPhone headset and use it with the iPod touch. It will work with all iPod/iPhone applications that make use of audio input.

Mar 30, 09 - 11:10 am Comment from: Mr. Reeee

Cool.

I finally got an iPod touch 2G last week. Now all I need is the Etymotic h2F headset/earphones.

http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/hf2.aspx

The Reuters article says this:

While Skype video is very popular with desktop customers, Durchslag said that the company is still considering whether it will offer video for the iPhone or other phones.

"We're considering video carefully but we have a really high bar on the quality," and how the user interaction will work with other applications on iPhone, he said. "If we do it we will have to do it incredibly well."

Video? Hmmm... And just how is that supposed to happen on an iPhone that doesn't have a video camera? Do you think that maybe Skype knows something about upcoming iPhone hardware that we don't???

Is it just me or does Durchslag sound like Douchebag?

eBay considers Skype a loss-leader. It was supposed to make it easier for buyers and sellers on the Marketplace to communicate, but that never really took off. That's why eBay has been looking for a buyer for the last year: they took a $1.7 billion write-off on it.

If they can't sell it soon, the stockholders may demand they let it go dark. It's closed and proprietary, so that won't be a great loss to the industry as a whole.

Mar 30, 09 - 01:20 pm Comment from: MacintoshSoftwareList.com

SKYPE!!! Thank you Jesus

Mar 30, 09 - 02:32 pm Comment from: G4Dualie

@CD

"You can buy an iPhone headset and use it with the iPod touch."

Actually, that's not true. The first-gen Touch headphone jack cannot process incoming signals. The latest Touch does, but not ours.

Jailbreak is your only hope.

But even then, you would have to acquire one of those custom microphones for about fifty bucks.

Mar 30, 09 - 02:37 pm Comment from: G4Dualie

@Apple Cider

You're probably a pretty good douche, yourself.

Mar 30, 09 - 04:39 pm Comment from: Michael in Dallas

Question:
We usually have this beautiful concept of PC2Phone = flat rate voip, while PC2PC = Free, and it's well accepted and expected. So if Skype in every phone become a reality, what's in it for Skype? Calling landlines? It's going obsolete already. So what will happen to those voice monthly plans? People could just pay the minimum minutes plan to keep the connectivity and that's it. The rest of the call will go through VoIP I guess.