Thread: Wow, video chat on the tablets is amazing...
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nilchak is offline nilchak
2008-04-13 , 23:22
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#7
Originally Posted by IcelandDreams View Post
I'm willing to put up with 5 minutes of tricky setup one time to make SIP calls that cost me nothing or nearly nothing whether video or not. It was as simple as server name, user name, password. done.

Video calling has been around for a long time and the problem isn't the setup.
While you are willing to put in those 5 minutes, not everyone is. And for a app to become popular and mainstream, it has to appeal and be simple for the average joe - who wouldnt care about putting in those 5 minutes.

Heck, even me with my technical background am not willing to put in 5 minutes and setup SIP when Skype allows me to do the same at an equally cheap price by just putting in a username and password across multiple devices and get all my contacts in every device. That is called simple.

And do you wonder why Skype is so popular across the globe.

And as much as being a open source fan myself, I am not religious (enough) to care about proprietary protocols etc if the same app can just do what I want easily.