Skype is, in terms of performance, one of the worst apps (actually, currently, the worst) I have to deal with on a daily basis.
I actually upgraded my slow, old but otherwise fine android to a Nexus 5 specifically so that Skype would open in reasonable time (it was the company chat app of choice back then, and I needed to be in the loop). I preferred paying a few hundred dollars, and not wasting 30 seconds every time I needed to talk to my team. It crashes all the time, it's slow to refresh, has erratic, unpredictable behaviour that causes me to simply restart it instead of waiting when I want to check if I have new messages. When you use it alongside Whatsapp and Telegram, the difference is painful. No wonder Slack etc. are growing so fast. I'll give Skype one thing: call quality is usually alright.
Now we see all these bugs coming up for various versions, this one for Windows, the weird arabic characters for Mac, it's further proof of the codebase decay that must be going on over there. It's amazing how powerful network effects can be, that everybody is still stuck with Skype. Because everybody has Skype...
I actually upgraded my slow, old but otherwise fine android to a Nexus 5 specifically so that Skype would open in reasonable time (it was the company chat app of choice back then, and I needed to be in the loop). I preferred paying a few hundred dollars, and not wasting 30 seconds every time I needed to talk to my team. It crashes all the time, it's slow to refresh, has erratic, unpredictable behaviour that causes me to simply restart it instead of waiting when I want to check if I have new messages. When you use it alongside Whatsapp and Telegram, the difference is painful. No wonder Slack etc. are growing so fast. I'll give Skype one thing: call quality is usually alright.
Now we see all these bugs coming up for various versions, this one for Windows, the weird arabic characters for Mac, it's further proof of the codebase decay that must be going on over there. It's amazing how powerful network effects can be, that everybody is still stuck with Skype. Because everybody has Skype...