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Skype blocking Fring chat client?

article published on 13 July, 2010

Last week, Fring released an updated iPhone app that allowed users of the new iPhone 4 to video conference over Wi-Fi and 3G with other iPhone, Android and Symbian smartphone owners. The app got massive publicity, because Apple's own FaceTime app only allows conferencing between iPhones and only over Wi-Fi. Fring said, later in the week, that it had to "temporarily reduce support" ... [ read the full article ]

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KillerBug
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_ 		13. July 2010 @ 23:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Skype already announced that they will be charging for 3G videocalls by the end of the year; I am sure that destroying all the free clients with this functionality will be the first thing they do in that process.
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luckyo
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_ 		14. July 2010 @ 02:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That would explain why native skype application on symbian lacked video call option even though fring supported it for a long time.
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ThePastor
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_ 		14. July 2010 @ 15:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Skype is full of crap, here...
Everything was fine and dandy until Fring decided to try to let the iPhone people join the rest of the world and use video chat without restrictions.

Skype needs to drop an Android app or shut their hole.
Fring needs to tell Apple to suck it and go back to their full featured Android app.

Apple needs to stay in their hole with the other Apple space cadets and quit trying to buck Apple's system.
Apple wants you to ONLY talk to other Apple phones... That's all you get.
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