Bugs would take a long time to fix, and more bugs would pile up. The Skype apps are also pretty bloated, and updates would leave me scratching my head trying to figure out how to do something that I had no problems doing before the update.
I wouldn't rank Skype as the worst app I've used, but it was always something that I couldn't trust and rely on fully. I've used it on a variety of platforms - Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android - and they've all been headache-inducing. Skype applications have not been the most reliable apps, whether on the desktop or mobile. It really doesn't get much easier than Zoom. Zoom is about as close to that as you can get, and yet has powerful features under the hood for those who understand how to wield such power.ĭownloading Zoom is a doddle, installing it is painless, and getting people into a meeting is as simple as sending them a link. People whose ideal app would have only have one button, and that button would be pre-pressed. I've gotten all sorts of people to use it with very little friction. And I don't mean you and me here, I mean all the regular Joes and Josephines out there who don't find this so easy.Īnd Zoom really is easy to use, so much so that I'm impressed. Must read: How to prevent your Zoom meetings being Zoom-bombed (gate-crashed) by trollsįirst and foremost, Zoom is much easier to use than Skype. It soon became clear why Skype has fallen by the wayside and Zoom is, well, zooming, with three areas standing out above the rest. I had my suspicions but decided to ask both my followers on Twitter and my ZDNet family for their ideas. So, what happened to Skype? How did it fumble the digital ball so badly that we're now Zooming and not Skyping? Instead, people are turning to Zoom in by the thousands. Coronavirus: Business and technology in a pandemicįrom cancelled conferences to disrupted supply chains, not a corner of the global economy is immune to the spread of COVID-19.īut now that the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has people confined indoors and working from home, Skype, Skyping, and Skyped are oddly absent from the discussion.
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