The Rise and Fall of Skype - What Happened to Skype?
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2021
- The Rise and Fall of Skype - What Happened to Skype? Why is Skype now a failure? Why is Zoom so successful? Skype vs Zoom? Who still uses Skype? What's the best video chat? Who owns Skype? How does Skype work? Skype vs FaceTime? Why did Skype have so much success? Does eBay own Skype? What country is Skype from? Why does everybody use Zoom? Why is Zoom so popular? Skype vs Microsoft Teams? Skype vs Discord?
This is the story of Skype's rise from its early, independent days, through its acquisition by eBay and eventually to its current ownership by Microsoft. We discuss the reasons behind Skype's recent struggles and how the likes of Zoom, FaceTime and Houseparty are seeking to overthrow it as the biggest star in video calls. Here's How It Happened.
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What’s your favourite video chat app?
FaceTime
Nice choice. Shame it’s only between Apple devices though
@@HowItHappened Yeah, its only practical if you're in the Apple ecosystem. Google Meet (which is supposed to replace Google Hangouts) is probably the best for most people.
discord
Skype and Signal 💙
It breaks my heart that most people seemingly switched Zoom and other apps when the pandemic started when Skype was the OG. "Skype me" sounds cooler than "let's do a Zoom" or something like that.
yeah, good that "How it Happened" say ... took a closer look ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Eesti strong
"Hop on discord"
@@HowItHappened Skype is still functionally Superior. People need to stop switching communication programs every 3 years. Someone got gullible women to switch to WhatsAp so that everybody can be traced by their phone number and then to Chinese Zoom with covid. But Skype has a translator and there isn't even a third party translator for WhatsAp. Every app requires a download on the phone
Unfortunately you forgot a big reason why Skype died. Many, many gamers used Skype to game with their friends but as soon as discord came along and had the best audio quality and the voice detection feature, Skype was obsolete.
Great point ✅
And Skype becoming the most unstable piece of software ever since Microsoft bought. Notifications breaking, calls breaking up and hanging up for no reason, audio quality always dropping, and at one point it would literally disable my internet for 5 minutes which I only found out after we all switched to Discord.
@@ducciboi
Same thing for every business.
When you don't have competitors, you probably don't improve things.
When new strong competitors hit the market, you die immediately.
I'm 15 and actually used Skype numerous times in my younger years because my mom went on mission trips often. Just another reason Skype was great
Wow!
It had great potential, but now competition is high. Zoom was able to offer a better service with a cheaper price, focusing 100% on video and customer experience.
Zoomed away from the competition! 🚀
All my close friends eventually moved away from Skype due to constant radical ugly interface changes and connection lost with calls. We all moved over to Discord, which basically has all the features Skype has but doing them better, with way more fun features. As for the family, other means like emails, SMS and FaceTime.
It’s a shame Microsoft couldn’t keep up with the times
Over the past 2 years I convinced my friends to get Skype , so now we have a loyal crew of Skype users, discord is cool and all but good old Skype is better 😎
Facetime is a stupid 'Apple only' feature, no Android version there
@@vulc1 ok
My girlfriend from the Philippines and me used to use Skype all the time, until half-way through 2017 when Facebook Messenger finally offered video chatting. Then we left Skype, but now Facebook Messenger is no longer reliable and the slightest thing sets it off to block us from using Facebook Messenger. We have converted back to Skype now, since it has always been reliable and 100% FREE.
I still use Skype! And so are my friends.
One of relatively few!
My girlfriend and I have left Facebook Messenger and returned to Skype. Facebook Messenger blocks us from using messenger for days at a time for no reason. Facebook is simply unreliable now.
I miss Skype :(
Io uso Skype quasi tutti i giorni
You shouldn’t, it’s really easy to get your ip tracked on it. Ydk how many people who ddosed me and I had to ddos back lol
@@Yurei2K your hang around with the wrong crowd of people
@@chltmdwp wouldn’t be telling these people this if i didn’t haha
@@Yurei2K;)
I remember using Skype to talk to my friends almost everyday when I was a middle schooler
Skype didn't keep up with the competition,it became irrelevant.
There was nothing they could do. There was too much competition.
Great video underrated channel
Thank you 😊
Microsoft has injected so many bugs even in simply logging in and initialize Skype it made me just about crawl the wall by my fingernails today out of frustration when trying to help a friend, she still tries to use it. Full disclosure: I used to test operating systems at Microsoft, the ones that did not flop. Because I was on the job and gave a damn about quality. It's so bad now that it has to be intentional destruction of Skype and/or it could be as simple as the person running that group abhorring Skype consciously or otherwise.
The last OS that Microsoft had that was useful was Windows 7. Windows 8.1 was a tragedy but no where near as bad as Windows 10. Nothing works right on Windows 10 when it comes to scanners and printers. Half the time my computer doesn't recognize them. When Microsoft bought Skype they ruined that too.
MS destroys everything it gets its hands on. Skype is lucky it's still around. Same goes for LinkedIn.
Activision next?!
@@HowItHappened MAYBE MOJANG?!!?
Well, hundreds of millions may have joined Zoom. I tried it, didn't like it and now it's not on my new computer but Skype sure is. The big problem with Skype now is that Microsoft has gradually ruined it. Some of the features are no longer on the new Skype. I hope those two guys that originally designed Skype get together and design another communication app around the old version of Skype some day. In my eyes, that would be a big hit!!!!!!!
so many things such as internet explorer, adobe, and more, are gone now. its like im saying goodbye to my childhood forever. and im not ready to let it go. :(
2012: Everyone used Skype
2022: Everyone used Discord or Zoom
I do have nostalgia for Skype but locking stuff behind a paywall that were once free, having too many ads every where and also having a faulty product with no improvements
It's no wonder it died out in just a few years later
Speeding up to 1.25 and you sounded like a mix of Pyrocynical and Meme explained lol
Thanks… I guess! 😅😂
Good times
I'm 12. And yup, I know Skype.
Wow! Didn't somebody suggest a Skype video just a few days ago?
Hope the video lived up to expectations! 😄
@@HowItHappened All of your videos based on fan suggestions end up living up to expectations. 😀
Also, this video has received 363 views in only a single day. I guess it was a good fan suggestion! That kind of growth usually doesn't happen here.
Haha thank you! Maybe it’ll reach 363k views one day 🤣🤣
@@HowItHappened I hope! ❤
I can’t seem to get Skype to work properly on the app and on the chrome
on my laptop... sigh... haven’t had this issue with other apps. But then again could just be my laptop :/
So just download Skype to your laptop instead of using it in your web browser.
Great thumbnail!
Glad you liked it!
Agreed! It is simpler than usual, but I like it.
Thank you :)
I used to use Skype for gaming back in the day until I switched to Discord 😅
I think it was only a matter of time before skype went down. It was just early in the market with comparatively less competition, and thats why a lot of its flaws were tolerated. When I was a kid I never experience ONE single smooth skype call, it was always laggy and just frustrating. My entire family hated it hahaha
Has Skype "gone down?" We still use it regularly to talk to relatives, particularly those that are not tech-savvy because it's already on their computers. I'm not sending Google Meet links every time we have a conversation (and only short conversations are free now) and I'm sure as hell not gonna be able to get them to install Zoom or Discord.
4:30 I wonder how much it cost for Zoom for that integration. Microsoft made a profit over it, that's for sure.
Skype used to be so cool, it worked well, was really easy to use, it looked nice, now, it looks ugly, and it s confusing af, and they deleted all of my convos, so I can t get that nostalgia from my old friends, that I lost because of this ...
Me too I miss Skype
Fonzie skate & surf Microsoft engineers have a disaster on that.
Skype just got wierd. Whenever I didn't use Skype for a bit my account just got banned. I as a consumer won't make multiple accounts for a vedio calling app which is the same as the compitition. i however did still make a new account which got banned too. This was my personal experience
Well I loved Skype and was the last of my friends to leave it for discord
Haha Discord seems like the future!
Last time I used it was like 2015
What if Skype rebrands to a brand derived from GroupMe?
Skype is preinstalled on my 2-year-old laptop.
I loved Skype alot.
I still love Skype for international calling for free they do great colour package
b-but a lot of people using it
Why is no one talking about discord?
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2:10 "cut its losses", fucking what ? the company they bought was already lucrative, but not enough I guess...
Because the service got so shaky you couldn't use it via desktop app any more so we moved to smartphone and that quickly turned just as shit effectively making any advantages to a regular line like a better call rate completely void. Microsoft is just uncool and once they acquired it...that was the death knell. The end!
MS took over skype that is the problem
skype has funny stickers
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The English made a blunder including Skype in the Oxford dictionary.
discord happened
reason why skype became useless: it got both by microsoft, everthing ms touches becomes a money grab, reduze features, makes you watch adds and becomes once the greates things skype and teamspeak had combined into discord!
i stoped personaly use skype because they decided to remove the old launcher and force you to use thair new, pile of garbage infested by adds.
What do you mean what happens to Skype? It’s what people use.
Zoom seems like its for OAPs and school teachers, lame.
😂
Now Discord takes over
As usual Microsoft killed another business.