The Problem With Skype

By adopting a closed protocol I don't think Skype will last far into the future. And I mean like 10 years or so. Certainly Skype is low cost but there needs to be a revenue model in there somewhere. This can be done I am sure, you hire a tutor to help you with your maths and you are billed at an agreed upon per-minute rate by Skype, who then takes their cut and deposits the rest into the tutors account. And then of course there is always phone-sex. And then SPAM, which could be brutal. One of the things to worry about with the Skype user base is that they are CHEAP. A low cost device is one thing, but it also means the end users care about the difference between $100 a year; grinding money out of them might prove to be too hard. A per-minute SIP DID is now about $2 a month, less than SkypeIn, and some with unlimited inbound at $6 a month. So who cares about price when the price is so low it doesn't matter either way? I will pay more for SIP for the ease of using an ATA and cordless phone, and not needing to by a Skype only handset which could also be defunct in who knows when. SIP isn't going anywhere.

What the hell am I going to write about?

Yeah so I am at work and bored, so time to start blogging right? Certainly boredom is the mother of all invention, not barren and infertile necessity. So what will I write about? I think one can only write about themselves, no matter what they think or try to do otherwise. It is always good to write from ones own perspective because this is how we all see the world. I remember once when I had a sore ankle and I was limping about town, how many people I noticed who also had some sort of limp, people whom I would not have taken a second look at if I had not been sore, but people whom I immediately related to myself because we shared a common ailment. The human is predisposed to this sort of way of viewing the world, and to try and fight it, to try and sound or come off as someone else will always suffer under the taint of falsity. I do not mean by this that I will be writing about my feelings and manic episodes, but merely stick to a plain style and record the thoughts as they come to me as efficiently as I can.