Why did Skype succeed and Joost fail?

Re:Why did Skype succeed and Joost fail? by frou_dh on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @10:18AM (#1432800)

All I remember about an early Joost was the bizarre, grossly non-native GUI that was enough to make me bin the app after a few days.

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Re:Why did Skype succeed and Joost fail? by zandorg on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @10:49AM (#1432892)

Snap, I thought Joost's GUI was like an SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) experiment gone horribly wrong. It was verging on Gibson cyberspace, but more likely, a kind of useless Minority Report interface.

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Re:Why did Skype succeed and Joost fail? by mortenjorck on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @11:40AM (#1433029)

I think you hit the problem on the head. Skype thrived on its simple user experience, while Joost's overcomplicated and kludgy UX killed it.

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Re:Why did Skype succeed and Joost fail? by steve19 on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @10:41AM (#1432869)

I can't remember how early on I tried it, but on my Mac it was incredibly unstable.

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