Meeting Skype at the eBay DevCon
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on May 25, 2006 in Developer Blog.
I know a lot of people out there are eager to meet up with Skype at the eBay Developer Conference in June so I just wanted to drop a quick post to tell you how you can do that.
1) You can drop by the Skype booth during the exhibition (don’t forget to collect your Skype goodie).
2) You can come by the expert lounge to meet us.
3) You can schedule one 2 one meetings with us on the Monday using the conference bulletin board which goes live on the 11th June.
4) You can grab us over a beer at one of the parties.
5) You can come to one of our sessions and grab us after the talk.
We hope to see you there.
Comments
It seems odd to meet Skype at the eBay DevCon. I know eBay acquired Skype last year, but it would make more sense to meet Skype at MIX or the next MSDN conference, as I swear on all that is holy that Skype utterly and completely panders to the spoon-fed flock of Windows users. Thanks again Skype for the featureless GUI-garbage that is the Mac Skype client. Anybody out there with Xcode, Cocoa experience and a clue wanna take an honest stab at pulling together the OS X Skype client that should be? You know, the one with the Mac-laden bells, whistles, experiences and innovative features that actually leverage the full potential of Skype technology. We'd appreciate an OS X Skype client that reflects the ingenuity many of us have come to expect from the *nix communities; those quality applications that tend to be the antithesis of the consistent codswallop that the predominantly visionless lemmings equipped with Visual Basic and a Dull usually dump on the techno-apathetic masses. I'd wager that one reason for which development for the OS X Skype client is so austere has to do with the last phrase of the previous sentence: "techno-apathetic masses". Of course not all of our thanks can go to them for the zillions of yottabytes of digital swill their demographic encourages. We can't deprive the gamut of insular tech companies their due, the companies who mistakenly believe that quantity is the sole determining factor of economic success. Thankfully for Skype they don't have to harbor any worries about shortchanging Mac users. Not only is the percentage of Mac users too small to warrant any considerations of investing the pittance required to pace the OS X version of Skype with the Windows version, it's also too small of a user community to ever have any affect on Skype's success, despite Skype's pathetic ruse to dissemble ostracism. After all, how could there be any value in a community that makes up a pathetic 3% of the market? A community that's so loyal they've not only helped a company survive but even thrive for over thirty years, all the while existing in the lowest percentile. Yep, it must be true, quality's got nuthin' over quantity, right Skype?
haleonearth | Wednesday, May 31
sad but true...quantity over quality has become the rule...what a shame for all of us......
wayann75 | Tuesday, Jun 6
Because we Mac users are so neglected and only represent 3% of the desktop-compuer population, I think we should be given a bonus until the video version is released on te Mac - we want to feel loved, more included, and less like second-rate CyberCitizens.
My proposal is that all Skype users be allowed free PC to phone calls until 2.0 for OS X is released.
Also, with iChat being compatble with certain versions of AIM, yahoo IM video being compatible between Macs and PCs, and with all the other video chat programs emerging, what do you have in store to beat the competition? Also I've heard rumers of a leaked beta Is it true?
joeyslaptop | Monday, Jun 26