It's weird, because even tech that "dies" kind of lives on in other programs' features, right? I bet you can see pieces of Skype all over the internet.
tx Paul! Skype is an interesting crossover story - biz/consumer/mobile/cloud - it lived through them all. My old boss shared a cool pic; I'll share on notes.
I used to think that old software never dies, that it just fades away. Until reading this post, I cannot recall the last time I saw Skype mentioned ANYwhere. There was never a farewell; from my viewpoint, it just got slowly overpowered and ultimately displaced by other live stream video applications. A slow, silent death, finally made official by you.
Your second line is the reason why and the advantage to officially killing er retiring Skype, is so it's user base can be transitioned into something with younger legs.
It's weird, because even tech that "dies" kind of lives on in other programs' features, right? I bet you can see pieces of Skype all over the internet.
Pieces of Skype would be a cool band name.
PoS hmmmmm. Yes and Skype was built from existing stuff in the same way. Call it shoulders of giants or … Ouroboros?
Absolutely. Tech evolution mirrors biological evolution in SO many ways!
I'm happy to know the Skype story from an insider-man. I agree with Franks comment.
tx Paul! Skype is an interesting crossover story - biz/consumer/mobile/cloud - it lived through them all. My old boss shared a cool pic; I'll share on notes.
I used to think that old software never dies, that it just fades away. Until reading this post, I cannot recall the last time I saw Skype mentioned ANYwhere. There was never a farewell; from my viewpoint, it just got slowly overpowered and ultimately displaced by other live stream video applications. A slow, silent death, finally made official by you.
Your second line is the reason why and the advantage to officially killing er retiring Skype, is so it's user base can be transitioned into something with younger legs.