If you’re a Skype user and a BlackBerry owner then it’s no news to you that in order to use Skype services from your BlackBerry you have to use third party apps that aren’t half as good as the official Skype app you see on other OS. If you try to access the Skype download page from your BlackBerry smartphone you will see a message saying Skype isn’t available for your phone and “Why not find an iPhone, Android or Symbian device that works with Skype”. They are actually suggesting you should ditch your BlackBerry and get a new phone.
We all know how big Skype is. If a company this large, perfectly capable of doing a BlackBerry app, won’t even bother doing one that means this could become a growing trend and BlackBerry users are taking the risk of living off third party apps, if we’re lucky. What do you guys think needs to be done to prevent this from happening?
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And biggest part of this problem is caused buy bad marketing strategies of Skype to let verizon dominate it’s app!
Who cares, they will soon be owned by Microsoft and no longer support any OS other than WP7. Funny that there is no mention of WP7. I wonder if this same message displays for WP7 phones. What a joke…Symbian phone support. Yes, let us all go out and upgrade or should I say downgrade to a Symbian phone.
This is VERY easy to fix…
If RIM’s numbers are correct – that 500.000 Playbooks are sold, We just make sure that everyone send requests and show that we really need Skype on our devices. I doubt they would turn down 500.000 new users
RIM ‘shipped’ 500,000…not ‘sold’
it is estimated that they actually sold 250,000 – 300,000 PlayBooks. Companies always use the ‘shipped’ terminology to make it sound better lol
I would just learn to do without Skype, simple and most easy. And if millions of bb owners do same, that I think is the strongest message. Any forms of begging are still begging, and thus sending wrong msg. My way plainly stated “hey Sype, U do us more than U think”. So, let’s start spreading words to all bb owners; get use to live without Skype, no big deal….
Skype is no longer relevant with all of the alternatives. UMA calls on Tmobile makes Skype a none event in my book. Good riddance.
we want skype for blackberry!
I could care less about Skype anyways, I TOTALLY PREFER OoVoO! OoVoO is SO much better, it makes Skype look bad. It lets you conference up to 6 people, its free and you can make calls to a desktop as well. Did I mention it eats up less resources and uses works great even on slower internet speeds. OoVoO please make a Playbook App!
I just got this message too and got all excited about being able to put skype on my blackberry… very annoying…
Don’t blame Skype (only)…Blackberry Messenger is a similar story where BB does not release the protocol to be used by other vendors.
I agree with “learn to live without them” and use either yahoo or msn messenger with my mates now. We shouldn’t beg.
Juan america has the app so u need to do uuur research! It wouldn’t bee too difficult to make the code for the uk phones!
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Blackberry is yesterdays phone. It would be fixing a past technology for Skype to start looking at support for Blackberry.
exactly David.
I have started using BB couple of months ago due the company policy. It is really message from the past for me, very uncovinient and user-unfriendly. Even symbian that I do not like at all made better progress at this point.
I do not see the future for BB in the market. It holds the position only because of the prevoius users generation, like Nokia. But today Nokia is already dismisisng their staff because of the dramatic loss in market share, tomorrow is BlackBerry turn.
What is more annoying that apple is somebody saying “if you had a blackberry, i could contact you for free”
more annoying than apple….
If BB is already considered as yesterday’s phone… than I wonder why until today NONE of the existing mobile companies is capable to match the BB technology in managing Security, Battery life, Emails, Reliability…………………
ask yourselves “Why Only Verizon customers have access to true Skype on their BlackBerry?”
The problem with Skype on BB is not because Skype doesn’t want to have a client for BB but because Skype wants to gather personal info from BB devices more than it’s allowed on BB devices & is considered confidential………
Security is the only one from the list, what BB can really consider as the advantage compairing to other manufacturers.
But is it really so necessary for daily use? is it really worth all the constant bugs and annoyng unconvinience for usual people not for high-tech companies who have a lot of secrets?
I do not think so. BB is almost yeasterday’s “smart”phone.
RIM = RIP
what pisses me off most is that when u go 2 their hmpg, images of blackberrys r everywhere
burst Skype
Sadly, I live in a rural area and the Blackberry has a way better antena and I can get 2-3 bars at home, while neither my htc or my friends iphone can get any.. so I need a blackberry…
also I take really nice pictures with my blackberry that can pass as my pro camera, no other phone comes close to that (mpix don’t matter folks) and then there is battery life.
I can’t switch from BB because I need the way better antenna, blackberry… also I need a phone that just works for days on end without charging, BB again.. but I do have a HTC desire for a toy .. and for skype, but as soon as gmail will let me call with the droid I will dump skype completely because they screwed over RIM at its weakest moment.
when RIM integrate voice calls into BBM , skype will be begging for another chance
voice over bbm now that would be good.,
will google’s chat system work on BB