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Re:New Skype Update Is Horrible by dpatrick86 on Monday July 03, 2017 @05:46PM (#14691643)
It's actually worse than that. They seize your credits if you don't make a call (or text) that uses the credits in six months... it doesn't matter if you've been on skype or not.
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Re:New Skype Update Is Horrible by netsharc on Monday July 03, 2017 @05:59PM (#14691742)
It's not really seized, just deactivated, and you can reactivate it any time. I don't know why either, I'm guessing for legal/accounting purposes, like at one point Apple had to charge people for iPod updates: https://arstechnica.com/apple/2009/09/accounting-rules-chang...
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Re:New Skype Update Is Horrible by mabey on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @12:28AM (#14693549)
Wow, I never knew that was the reason why Apple used to charge for the updates. Thanks for the link.
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