Subscribe to RSSSkype - as broken as ever
Every time I’m forced to mess around with Skype, I find it still has issues making it not worth the effort.
Here’s the recent rash of the latest open issues:
- It will not deliver caller ID (of my US mobile) on SkypeOut PSTN calls to the US - it is all setup on the Skype Accounts page, but it still just delivers garbage to the call recipient.
- It will not send the SMS to verify the number for using in outbound SMS - is this hard?
- Presence is totally useless and never seems to show the actual presence of (specifically certain) users on the buddy list - it shows them as not connected (or undefined, the little question mark) when they are actually on-line and able to receive calls.
And once again, I say to myself, “Oh yeah - now I remember why I stopped using this before.”
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exceptional Aug 12, 2008 - 11:08:05As “cool” as skype is, the concept is just too full of wholes for my organization to take on. Goodbye internet flareups, hello old fashioned phone lines.
Skype works in Linux. Does phweet?
Ed, Phweet is solving a different kind of problem from Skype (and Jajah and the rest). But the answer is yes, of course Phweet works with Linux. Since Phweet lets people use Flash, SIP, SkypeOut, or any phone for the voice channel, it works with any OS, including mobiles.
Skype, Jajah, and the rest, are all about getting everybody on to the same system at the same time. Phweet is about letting people connect using what they already have, whether that’s Skype, SIP, PhoneGnome, or just a plain or mobile phone.