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