maemo.org - Talk - Skype call slow and with spikes, poor quality

Ach!
[Sigh]
Can't have a lark without someone coming by saying nothing more than
"Really? $M didn't notice? Think about it people."

Ok.
I'll take the bait.
Even though it is obvious you cannot spell a globally recognized 2-letter acronym correctly.
I'll even try to take you seriously..

It isn't worth their time to do it.
Hell they can get rid of whatever whenever they want.
But unlike other platforms it may be more difficult for them to "simply" shut things down for us.
I would imagine since the program has (of course) proprietary bits in it ..yet it still is debian based...(it needs to be for us..)...luckily it can still be hunted down and downloaded...in fact there are alot of different corps tied up proprietorially and legally in the maemo os's ...
I don't think any one of them can simply extricate themselves from it.
Or it most certainly would have happened already...
in fact it would have happened many times over by now with many programs,services and functions for the device line.

Whereas it is a whole different ball of wax for other types of programs on other types of platforms and device lines... control is more defined...easier to implement.
For example:
Microsoft not only has the reins of Skype...they also got their hands firmly on the Symbian platform.
And that makes things much easier to flush whatever they wish.
Whereas they don't have their hands on or in our platform.
They have little say or control.

Shutting us completely down may require eliminating things which very well could impact debian users also.

There hasn't been (for a long time) and won't be any (time soon) Skype updates for our maemo devices of course.

Unless they revamp the entirety of their Skype services and how they function.. I imagine it will just continue to work for us.

.The whole point of shutting doors on devices is to:
A- save cost if the service is hemorrhaging money and manpower to maintain.
B- drive consumers straight to the models they want the consumers to use. Streamlining service and controlling the end-user population in the doing.

As far as "A" goes in relation to us...
there is no Skype maintenance going on for our devices, no updates, no servicing, no manpower and no monies being spent.
So where is the loss in leaving a miniscule population alone?
None.
At.
All.

As far as "B" goes in relation to us..
The user base for other devices is much higher than maemo device user numbers...it simply isn't practical...nobody here is running straight to join the Windows rank and file ...and they know it.

And lastly...considering there is no gain or loss in leaving us alone...
but there is most certainly going to be a large expenditure in chasing the rabbit down the hole ..trying to root out and extinguish (quite probably) the inextinguishable...
If determined ..I'm sure they could end the service for maemo devices...
But I'd laying money down that the only way they could accomplish it would be to revamp the entirety of the Skype service itself, how people connect to it...for everyone on the planet .
and how much will that cost?
Just to get rid of us maemo users?

And even if they succeeded in shutting Skype down for us...
yet again the question remains...
where is the gain?
A huge fiscal savings or dividend?
Maemo users migrating to "$M" (:D) devices?
An increased feeling of happiness from the society at large?
A positive-message social-media coup for Microsoft?
Not happening
None of it.
The opposite in fact...
there won't be any increase in respect, admiration or love for Microsoft in the doing.
There won't be anyone "migrating" to Windows...the evidence here in the forums indicate everyone would rather use another service, voip, sip ...do without...cut-one's-wrists-first...anything... except run to Microsoft's open arms.. over the loss of Skype functionality on device.
There won't be any money saved or earned...just lost.

In short it would be a (micro-disaster...well perhaps not "micro" for the giant Microsoft....more like..) nano-disaster for Microsoft.

It's pretty basic business 101.

There's me thinking about it.

And what exactly are you offering as reasoning Mr. "think about it" ? ...
I see no offered actual reason, theory, hypothesis, fact or documentation from you.

So ...please illuminate and elucidate us with your vast understanding...
Don't leave us ignorant savages in the dark...
Enlighten our dim minds as to the obvious we must be missing that you are somehow privy to ..that not a one of us may have considered.