Pipe 2YM Skype Gives In. Group Video Chat Now Free, like Hangouts

Skype Gives In. Group Video Chat Now Free, like Hangouts

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Hurray for the free market and its few remaining giant members.

Because of pressure from Google Hangouts, which has offered free group video calls for a while now, Skype has announced they'll begin rolling out free group video calls. Unfortunately they're starting with desktop clients first.

http://lifehacker.com/skype-makes-group-video-calling-free-for-all-users-1568677187

This is good news for me since I have an Android phone on which I've thus far completely avoided registering a Google account. (But I was just about to, since I found out that you can do two-way Hangout chat with a GMail address but WITHOUT having to succumb to Google+.)

This is a nice alternative for those who'd rather sell this part of their identities to Microsoft instead of Google, and who have still managed to avoid the incessant +ing of Google.

Score one for heterogeneity.

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2014-04-28 16:52
Skype Gives In: Group Video Chat Now Free, Like Hangouts
songofthepogo@pipedot.org
Hurray for the free market and its few remaining giant members.

Because of pressure from Google Hangouts, which has offered free group video calls for a while now, Skype has announced they'll begin rolling out free group video calls. Unfortunately they're starting with desktop clients first.

Lifehacker has a brief writeup here , with more information available via the Skypee-for-a bll-users-1568677187og .

This is good news for me since I have an Android phone on which I've thus far completely avoided registering a Google account. (Bthoutgh I was just about to, since I found out that you can do two-way Hangout chat with a GMail address but WITHOUT having to succumb to Google+.).

This is a nice alternative for those who'd rather sell this part of their identities to Microsoft instead of Google, and who have still managed to avoid the incessant +ing of Google.

Score one for heterogeneity.

[Ed. note: Coincidentally, this comes very close on the heels of Google pulling back on Google+ and supposedly moving its Hangouts dev team to Android.]
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