Out of beta and free, Skype launches its video messaging service across all its major platforms expect WP8! Wtf! Hello Microsoft wee do exist yet iOS, Android etc get first dibs. Not happy.
Just saw that on another site too. I love my 920 but sometimes I can't deny getting left out.
Video messaging is not important to me at all and I will probably never use it but it's just all about the attitude here it doesn't feel good for sure.
MS OWNS Skype, yet WP8 gets left out? I don't really care if they are developing it until it is baked into future WP8 updates. It would be great to have them now instead of iOS and Android stepping ahead first. I don't mind personally at all for the function but it puts a really bad impression on WP8 itself.
MS hasn't really addressed a real solution for the storage problem either for mid-end Phones with 8GB onboard storage.
Pity really, because it's such a brilliant OS.
Even BB10 - which just barely got its own Skype app - gets Skype video messaging support before Windows Phone? Really, Microsoft?
Microsoft owns Skype, and their own mobile platform doesn't support the latest Skype features?
I don't care what the reasoning is behind this, it is utterly ridiculous.
Even BB10 - which just barely got its own Skype app - gets Skype video messaging support before Windows Phone? Really, Microsoft?
Microsoft owns Skype, and their own mobile platform doesn't support the latest Skype features?
I don't care what the reasoning is behind this, it is utterly ridiculous.
Don't **** Microsoft yet guys. Remember next week we have BUILD annual conference. They're saving this Skype feature update for that. Just got this information from my friend
Maybe WP8 simply can't do it due to the way it's designed with the way it handles security for file storage etc? Which is pretty sad if that's the case.
Along with MS's decision to put Office on iOS (albeit requiring a subscription), I can't figure out if they actually stand behind WP8 as a viable product or not. These apps/functions should be exclusives, or at least offer much more on WP8 than on competing platforms, giving an incentive to buy a WP8 phone. Instead, it just gives one more reason not to. Bizarre.
Video messaging is still useful on a phone without front-facing camera, since you don't need to look at anything while recording.I fully admit I don't even have a front-facing camera on my new Lumia 521, so I can't really make use of this feature anyway (unless I use a mirror), but it's the principle of the matter that really irks me. Is this the kind of idiocy I can expect in the future as a Windows Phone owner?
Video messaging is still useful on a phone without front-facing camera, since you don't need to look at anything while recording.
True. I guess you could point the rear camera at yourself and hope you're mostly in the frame, hehe.