Skype’s Desktop API is finally bowing out after 9 years of online service and PC users using a 3rd party app with the VoIP thing will no longer have access to the service. It means a black out of the video chat for now and thousands or million won’t be able to directly chat with someone even at a remote location thousands of miles away. Microsoft, the current owner of Skype, is scrapping the video-call Skype for desktop because it was not designed to support mobile app since its creation way back in 2004.
Perhaps mobile devices at that time aren’t yet ready to accept Skype but with the increasing use of smartphones today, Skype proves to be user-friendly with mobile devices lately. This makes the desktop API practically useless and a waste of both time and money. Microsoft is still coming out with an idea of a new kind of app that offers the same Skype functionalities but with full support for mobile apps.
The scrapping is yet to take effect December of this year. Skype itself is not actually saying goodbye but only that part that supports other third-party software or apps that connects or synchronizes with Skype in real time. Skype continues with its varied functionalities as a standalone program in both mobile and desktop environments.
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