Comment on When the world connected on Skype
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Skype is still a very good voice chat app, despite a succession of cluttered and pointless updates. It’s clear and clean in sound, and has an excellent gain tuner.
I will use it until the day it dies, and then switch to WhatsApp or something else. It’s all shit by comparison, so I’m not too chuffed as to where I go. Yeah, it’s all junk.
But with my contacts on Whatsapp, signal, teams, slack, and zoom, this feels so much like the pre-jabber days where pidgin was the only sane app. Now we don’t even have that.
This is lame.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
You can’t call regular phone lines with WhatsApp, teams, slack, or zoom. None of those are replacements for sjyoe.
greybeard@lemmy.one 4 weeks ago
Teams, as a business product, does actually offer phone service. It is a special license though and from what I hear people managing it hate it, even though users tend to like it.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Does it require a monthly fee? Does it cost the same as Skype? Skype was like less than ten cents per minute, pay as you go.
greybeard@lemmy.one 4 weeks ago
Oh yes, and it is really only a business feature. It isn’t competing with Skype. It is actually hard for me to think of Teams as something non-business users are supposed to use.