Skype to shut down for good within hours. The final farewell to Skype

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• rcy026 Member

  May 2025

  @dav848 said:

  Nokia still exist out there, instead of hanging around if they develop New OS for phones ,they can bounce back to the market
  (Something like better ram management,better UI, at lower power usage)

  I doubt they can. Nokia sold it's phone division to Microsoft who fucked it up totally and just dropped it. Today's Nokia phones are manufactured by a company called HMD that uses the brand on license.
  https://www.hmd.com/en_us/nokia-smartphones-and-tablets

  For people in Scandinavia Nokia is still mostly known for making tires and rubber boots.

  Thanked by 1dav848
• DediRock Member, Patron Provider

  May 2025

  @davide said:
  Tagging @DediRock

  Any Skype-down deals?

  I can hook it up
• jenkki Member

  May 2025

  @rcy026 said: I doubt they can.

  
• DediRock Member, Patron Provider

  May 2025

  @RespectableCitizen said:
  there are so many apps, skype is not popular anymore, also it collects everything, i miss Periscope live streaming app more

  Bring back AIM!!!
• rsk Member, Host Rep

  May 2025

  @jenkki said:

  @rcy026 said: I doubt they can.

  

  This is the reason why we can't use LET around others ...
• eb1995 Member

  May 2025 edited May 2025

  @Mumbly said:

  @jenkki said: Nokia comes to mind, the successful start and the brand crash after Microsoft bought them.

  and

  @shallownorthdakota said:
  If Nokia had further developed MeeGo or Maemo for their phones, it would have been so awesome. As soon as they started using Windows Mobile it was their death knell.

  It wasn't Microsoft that killed Nokia, Nokia killed itself before Microsoft even got involved. Nokia was struggling by the time Microsoft acquired them.
  
  You see, the same year my brother bought the HTC Hero, I purchased one of Nokia's flagships, the N95... and it was still a Symbian phone.
  By 2010, all the major brands at the time, Samsung (Galaxy S), HTC, Motorola, and LG... had already released their Android phones. Meanwhile, Nokia didn't ditch Symbian until 2011 and didn't fully phase it out until around mid-2013.
  Maemo was never really a mainstream option, just something for enthusiasts, since Nokia was still heavily betting on Symbian. And MeeGo, though loved again by some enthusiasts, only saw one device, that is the N9 in 2011. Again, too late. Android adoption was already widespread by then. They simply missed the train.

  When Microsoft bought Nokia's Devices and Services division in 2013, Nokia was already in a weakened and declining state.

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  What I really hated related to this topic was Microsoft killing MSN in favor of Skype.

  

  That was the real thing. Damn fuckers!

  Microsoft could have done better but they just made a hype OS that they never properly cared about. It was such a limited OS. I remember waiting fucking ages for an OS update and simple things like BT file transfer was just not possible, if I recall correctly.

  I just don't understand how MS is such a massive company with so much money but it feels to me like only 20 people actually worked there on a limited budget.

  Edit and I forgot to mention Skype. I feel like they killed that because they probably sent half the team to go work on Teams.