Ask HN: Why is Skype native worse than Skype WebApp?

3 points by mrits 9y ago ↗ HN

I'm on OSX. I never cared for Skype at all. Recently I checked out the webapp version. It actually uses quite a bit of less ram (chrome is telling me the tab is using 230MB vs ~500MB that Skype native uses). It also is missing an attachment bug that the native has (why I decided to try it out).

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herbst 9y ago ↗

To my understanding microsoft does not care about skype and the webapp is basically the same they deploy to phones which they most likely think is thw most relevant market.

Source: Skype on linux is a complete mess ever since microsoft bought it