Re:Skype falls victim to text chat bug
by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @10:19AM
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Prior to Microsoft's centralisation, Skype was completely unusable on mobile devices. I know, I tried it.
It still is though.
Re:Skype falls victim to text chat bug
by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @11:04AM
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It's still bad, but it's improved a lot from where it was.
Re:Skype falls victim to text chat bug
by lewisl9029 on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @02:35PM
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P2P doesn't necessarily have to mean more CPU and bandwidth usage, especially while in the background.
Modern P2P designs often have measures to disable participating in aiding network routing completely for devices with limited network/processing, which effectively only leaves as much traffic/processing as messages you explicitly send/receive.
They could've done an either/or thing; P2P for desktops, client-server for mobile devices (including laptops). However, they'd have to maintain two separate systems, and nowadays there's far more laptops and mobile devices than PC's, so with that in mind it makes sense.
That's the official version, anyway. You may choose to ignore reasons giving by the people who made the change, of course. The infrastructure on which Skype was built relied on most clients being PCs with decent internet connections and CPU to spare. Something that's increasingly not true in today's world.