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Re:Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling by nextparadigms on Monday February 04, 2013 @05:12PM (#5167530)
That's still a losing proposition in the long term, again the plugin-free WebRTC. Imagine everything else besides Skype works through WebRTC.
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Re:Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling by EwanToo on Monday February 04, 2013 @06:24PM (#5167959)
The value in skype comes from:

Directory services Calling out to external services, e.g. cell phones (The value for yesterday's users) Skype integration with devices like cell phones (the value for tomorrow's users)

WebRTC doesn't really get you anywhere on these 3 fronts on it's own. What it does is commoditise the voice traffic component of Skype, something they really haven't cared about for years.

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Re:Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling by rtpg on Monday February 04, 2013 @08:03PM (#5168375)
I thought that MS was pushing some form of WebRTC to get Skype working in the browser?
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Re:Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling by nextparadigms on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @02:36AM (#5169634)
Yeah, some proprietary form of WebRTC, though. You know Microsoft...
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