Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq...
by eps on Friday June 08, 2018 @03:08PM
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(b) is not stagnation, it’s feature completeness.
For example, Skype hit that very early on - you were able to make and receive voip calls of a very good quality, zeroconf, for free. It really didn’t need anything else. It just did one thing really well. That’s not stagnation.
Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq...
by charlesdm on Friday June 08, 2018 @05:24PM
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I don't know if this was because Skype was developed before the “mobile wave", but to this day it's still not a great app to make calls from through mobile.
Whenever I'm calling over 3G/4G it often disconnects, and I'm not the only person who seems to have this issue.
WhatsApp seems to be a lot better for mobile calling
It seems that products like AIM, ICQ, Facebook Messenger, Skype, cuseeme, etc. go through this lifecycle of (a) reaching MVP status, (b) stagnation, (c) deterioration and (d) people jumping ship to some other product at stage (a).
The new product seems better than the deteriorated old product but doesn't seem better than I remember the old product being back when it was at stage(a). Why?