{"id":5737,"date":"2013-08-29T09:46:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T07:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=5737"},"modified":"2013-08-29T09:46:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T07:46:30","slug":"10-birthday-candles-for-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/10-birthday-candles-for-skype\/","title":{"rendered":"10 birthday candles for Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Skype\" target=\"_blank\">Skype\u2019s<\/a> 10th birthday, a unique moment for the company. Technology companies that age are indicative of a great idea or a disruptor of a traditional event (using the telephone to make international calls).<\/p>\n<p>Skype has seen it all in their 10 years of operation. They have been acquired twice \u2013 first by eBay who then sold them to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Microsoft\" target=\"_blank\"> Microsoft<\/a>. Skype has transformed international calls and have made the entire process economical. Think about all the calls you have made via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Skype\" target=\"_blank\">Skype<\/a> to friends and family and then think about the potential cost if you would have used your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/245\/Phones\/\" target=\"_blank\">traditional phone<\/a>. It is a massive money saver (just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">PriceCheck<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Skype\" target=\"_blank\">Skype<\/a> has made the world seem a lot smaller \u2013 suddenly family members don\u2019t feel like they are very far away. That is a very powerful effect that definitely impacted the finances of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/245\/Phones\/\" target=\"_blank\">landline telephone<\/a> operators. However, in the same breath Skype has not innovated as much in the last few years as they most probably should have done. Their instant messenger product is under threat from companies like WeChat, BlackBerry and WhatsApp. Since Microsoft acquired the company it has had a lot of updates and issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Skype\" target=\"_blank\">Skype<\/a> headsets, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/138\/Webcams\/\" target=\"_blank\">webcams<\/a> (either free standing or those find on notebooks) have all had to be better designed to ensure a good Skype experience. I wonder what would have happened if Skype never existed?<br \/>\nHappy 10th Birthday Skype \u2013 may there be many more!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skype1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5738 aligncenter\" alt=\"Skype\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skype1.jpg\" width=\"542\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Skype\u2019s 10th birthday, a unique moment for the company. Technology companies that age are indicative of a great idea or a disruptor of a traditional event (using the telephone to make international calls). Skype has seen it all in their 10 years of operation. They have been acquired twice \u2013 first by eBay<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/10-birthday-candles-for-skype\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[530,702],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}