Economy: Skype is often cheaper than a phone.
Flexibility: You can change how you listen to and/or talk into a call
more easily with a computer program than with a phone, e.g., switching
between headphones, a wireless headset, a stereo system, etc.
Unification: If you already use Skype to talk to people, it can be
nice to use the same interface to handle phone calls. You can also
conference Skype calls and telephone connections together.
Tracking: When I use Skype for business calls, it's nice that I can
see call length accessibly without special telephone hardware or
software.
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:40:41PM -0500, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
Gee, why not just use the telephone for goodness sake? I mean, why use
other apps to make phone calls when a the Iphone does just fine of it's
own accord? Sorry if I'm missing something here; but, think about it.
Why use Skype to make phone calls when your own phone is just as good?
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
Skype name:
barefootedray
Facebook:
[1]facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1
On May 2, 2012, at 1:34 PM, Austin Seraphin wrote:
e SIP phone clients, both Telephone available from the Mac app store
and Blink available from [2]http://icanblink.com both work well. They
sound better too.
I just noticed this long thread so someone else has probably brought
this up, but it drives me mad how the new Skype keeps saying "Skype has
new window." every single time some kind of change happens, like
someone going online. Maddening! I don't keep Skype open for that
reason.
- Austin
On Apr 30, 2012, at 6:03 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
In addition to Skype, are there any good SIP phone clients for the
Mac
which are accessible? I've used Linphone on Linux from the command
line but would be interested in a Mac solution if there is one.
Skype
may be popular but the protocol is proprietary and SIP is more
universal. SIP is probably one of the best VOIP protocols out
there.
On 4/30/12, Kawal Gucukoglu <[3][email protected]> wrote:
Ok.
I have found that I can dial numbers again using the keyboard on my
Mac but
there is no edit field as there use to be when I first acquired the
mac.
Can this be brought back?
Kawal.
On 30 Apr 2012, at 10:16 PM, Missy Hoppe <[4][email protected]>
wrote:
Hi there! Thank you so much for starting this topic thread.
Hopefully,
this is the appropriate place to bring up my number 1
complaint with skype on the mac.
When I first got my mac and installed Skype; I believe this was
version
5.1 or so, the program always started in the contacts
list. Ever sinve 5.3 or so, when I run the program, it starts me on
something that Voiceover tells me is called Skype Home.
It basicly looks like a facebook clone. Granted, it's not
prohibatively
difficult to navigate to a table, interract and find
my contacts list and stop interracting, but I personally feel that
this is
something I shouldn't have to do, and it's just
aggravating enough that I avoid using skype as often as possible,
and only
run it periodically to check for updates in hopes
that this issue will some day be fixed. I've checked preferences
time and
again, and there simply isn't a way to configure
how the program starts.
To make this even more frustrating, when I ask people about id, they
claim
that they don't have this problem. I'd be more
than happy to disconnect skype from facebook if it would fix the
problem,
but would rather not if I don't have to. I don't
really understand the point of the favorites thing either, and miss
the
simplicity of the first mac version of skype I ever
used. Sorry for the aimless rambling, but I hope it makes sense to
someone.
Missy
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From: [5][email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kawal
Gucukoglu
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 5:07 PM
To: macvisionaries
Subject: Skype on the Mac made accessible?
This message is for Kevin Chow if he is working with Skype on the
Mac with
Skype Team.
Hi Kevin.
I have been using Skype on the Mac for a long time and when Google
had the
program, it worked beautifully with the Mac.
However since Microsoft have bought it, it has not been very good on
the
Mac.
The dial pad is inaccessible. Is there any way of getting Skype for
Mac
fixed?
If there are other issues, feel free any one to say if Kevin is
going to
get this sorted.
Kawal.
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