No Skype for Windows Phone 7
Citing a second-rate “user experience” compared to the iPhone and Android, Skype admits it has no immediate plans to release an app for Windows Phone 7.
Skype is working full steam ahead on an app for the iPad and the next-gen iPhone, but users of Windows Phone 7 will have to take a number and wait… and wait… and wait.
Skype’s Asia Pacific Vice-President Dan Neary says that Microsoft’s forthcoming smartphone OS is not a priority when it comes to mobile platforms.
“We try and focus not only where the need is but where the best experience is, and we feel that the best areas for us to develop are on the operating systems that we currently support – iPhone, Symbian, BlackBerry and now Android” Neary told APC during a press briefing in Sydney today. “We simply feel that those operating systems (have) a much better user experience”.
May 25th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
It’s a shame for Skype company, Windows Phone 7 will be next generation mobile OS for smartphones, and now every Skype user will switch to another VOIP solution.
June 25th, 2010 at 11:37 am
Sad days are coming to Windows Mobile users, many users will switch to programs like Fring and Nimbuzz.
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