A dedicated Skype app for Apple’s iPad is on its way, bringing along with it the company’s popular voice over Internet phone service and video chatting.
Now the whole Internet is full of this news and in many Skype for iPad is called a "killer app for iPad" that seriously threatens Apple's FaceTime position even for Mac users since most of them use Skype anyway. On some news sites I have even seen that "it will appear in Appstore today" meaning 28th of July. So, we are one day ahead and there's still no sign of dedicated Skype for iPad in iTunes. This raises the question again how fast/slow Apple approved applications in their store if it somehow intersects or get in conflict with their business interests. But I now have to admit that Skype could now suffer from what they did many times their selves. Using their closeness and proprietary developer programs, they managed to close Skype support in Fring and now are killing Skype for Asterisk.
I don't really wish that Skype for iPad will not be approved by Apple for iTunes. But I wish Skype (or should I now say Microsoft) would learn something from this delay. However I have to admin the chance of this is too small...
So it seems that I was right. Despite all the buzz there's no trace of iPad optimized Skype. Apple will protect their FaceTime by making further delays not allowing for a competitor to take over. Basically that's what Skype does too with its developer community.
Posted by: Alexey Zimarev | 07/05/2011 at 12:52 PM