Skype can be considered to carrier relations what Borat was to Kazakhstan: a one-man wrecking ball. Nokia has been faced with a rebellion after announcing its intent to preload Skype onto the Nokia N97; and if Nokia can’t pull this off, how should Palm?
Thus, the quote below (from US News) is unsurprising:
…The Internet phoning company says it has plenty on its plate with this week’s launch of an iPhone app, and one coming for the BlackBerry in May.
“We want to see how that device sells,” COO Scott Durchslag told reporters. “If [the Pre] takes off, it’s something we’ll consider.”…
I personally think that it is not only Skype’s, but also Palm’s decision – for them, advertising the webOS platform as “skypefree” could turn out to be a pretty good sales pitch when it comes to getting new carrier partners.
Getting Skype onto the Pre should not be too difficult from a clearly technological perspective: the hardware of the box is more than strong enough. The real problem is the Mojo SDK – if Skype wants to get its stuff running, it needs to do so natively. And if Palm doesn’t share its SDK, well, you get the idea…
What do you think?
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it took skype quite a time to get skype to the other mobile platforms and it is obvious that skype was and is always conservative in their decissions on supporting additional plattforms.
i assume, that this will only push fring, to get a version running to achieve skype support on web os.
regarding the current lack of a sdk, but on the other hand the contents of the leaked rom-image, it seems that palm is not so much into hiding their stuff and ip. i see a chance that this platform could reach the developers that do not wanna participate in apple’s restrictive rules, not having to do jailbreak, have a really advanced interface in frontend, linux in the backend, but can adressate more than the geeky android enthusiasts.
Hi Schlumpi,
two things:
a) is what Palm allows
b) is what happens…
For carriers, it makes a huge difference!
Tam