Skype Down Google Talk Up???

by Saul Wainwright on August 18, 2007 · 3 comments

Okay, so skype took a dive for a couple of days. That sucks…I even had to resort to using my good old (and very reliable) land line to call my pops in SA – and it cost me money man…like 9cents a minute.

Anyway, so what does this mean for Google Talk? Do you think this will migrate more people over to that service? I have never utilized the google talk feature but have always wondered how many people do. I would think that it offers some competition though skype definitely has the upper hand. These kind of crashes of a service can completely refigure a market. However my guess is we will all return to our normal skype ways and do what we normally do.

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1 Abraham Harrison 08.18.07 at 11:40 pm

Until Google Talk offers GoogleIn and GoogleOut the same way SkypeIn and SkypeOut does, it’ll just be Yes Another Internet Call service.

There are a million of them.

2 Taylor 08.20.07 at 2:37 pm

If Google rolls the Grandcentral service into GoogleTalk, as many people have speculated, I think it will blow Skype out of the water…. Likely won’t happen for quite some time though.

3 Abraham Harrison 08.20.07 at 2:52 pm

Yep… it would.

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