There is something scary in this situation.

Lets say there is Apple behind this. Making noise around only solution around 3th party app that relied on Skype popularity and infrastructure. Very enough to make this popular and become the only solution for IPlatform. Then popularity will rise people start creating alter accounts and all the competitors with "Free Skype calls" mainly Nokia will lost the last argument why do not buy IPhone instead...

That the worst case scenario but... possible especially if Skype saying there is nothing happened like ban. They just get rid of it after screw up few things