Peter Smith’s Posterous

The real story here is that Skype is restrained from innovating because they don’t own their own IP. In fact, they can’t even see the core IP.

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But anyhow, another reason why Skype doesn't get the attention it deserves. They can't innovate. No cool new features, no ecosystem of third party developers a la Facebook, Twitter or the iPhone. There's nothing new under the sun, so nothing to announce, nothing for the real-time web types (read: twtterers) to obsess over.