Skype Just Sucks In Every Platform

PrettyITGirl presents: My reasons why Skype application sucks in every platform.

Before anything else, can I just make a disclaimer?

DISCLAIMER: This post is not related or does not come from any company nor from any rival application of Skype. This post is merely a blog post and is here to express the author's very opinion on why the Skype sucks and should not be used as much as possible. This post is not intended to do any harm on Skype and its companies.

Alright. I'm going to give you here some of my opinions on why Skype sucks! I will try to use an alternative verb or adjective later (other than the word 'sucks'). I am currently copying a Steam in Windows, because I left my company's macbook pro at the office. I'm copying Dota2 from external drive to my local - Windows laptop! Yey! I just hope that I won't be updating my steam copy later.

Going back to the real purpose of this blog, why I hate Skype. Let me first tell you that I have already used and tried Skype application on various platforms. Name it motherlover!

1. iOS
2. Windows
3. Mac
4. Android

To enumerate the reasons, first I got this:

1. SKYPE IS EFFINGLY SLOW

I don't know if I am just exaggerating my first reason but I really find it slow, especially in Mac. Bloody Hell, Skype! You are as slow as android studio running on my Windows Laptop with an A8 AMD CPU!

2. THE WEB SKYPE VERSION SUCKS TOO

Well, we all know that this web version is in beta yet, but it still sucks! You can't sometimes receive some of the messages sent to your certain groups. Fix it, Skype!

3. SKYPE'S SOUND IS ANNOYING

At least for me, it is. Especially in iOS, when you first launch your application, the sound like a bursting rocket launcher will irritate you.

4. SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN SKYPE ARE JOKE!

Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac - Spammers are everywhere. I don't know how the Skype filters spammers, but they're always there. Freakin' spammers!

Next, one time, I was chatting with a stranger, and then I decided to block that person. Guess what? Thank you Skype! That person can still contact me until now! Thank you!

5. SKYPE IS GIVES YOU HASSLE.

Mac and Windows - In my experience in using Skype application on Mac, the application sometimes will not work and won't open up! Great! Given a random day and random time, the Skype will just not open up and crashes on Mac. Remove it from Applications Folder, reinstall, restart the computer - None of these worked. You just need to give some random time too the application for it to run.

Now in Windows, installation just takes forever. No words to describe how annoying it is! Ha!

That's all guys! Do you have any particular reasons too why you hate Skype? Share it here in comment section or contact me.

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81st Day As An iOS Developer With No Experience

The same as yesterday, I learned so many things and finished important tickets - urgent fixes on my main project. As I've mentioned yesterday, the version 1.0 of the app.

I learned that a simple hack can solve your bug in your app. Our part time senior, sir P. taught me that yesterday. I was able to solve a certain ticket, which is unsolvable by me alone, because of that simple 'hack'. Well I believe that shouldn't be done in a big project. That thing called 'hack' is merely for quick fixing.

 Before I end this post, I would like to share the following code/solution for rating your app function. This Rate-Me function in iOS is so easy to implement on your app. It will basically open a url in your iOS browser for review and rating for your app. This is already tested and can support iOS 6 and 7 and above.

NSString * appId = @"{YOUR APP ID}";
NSString * theUrl = [NSString  stringWithFormat:@"itms-apps://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewContentsUserReviews?id=%@&onlyLatestVersion=true&pageNumber=0&sortOrdering=1&type=Purple+Software",appId];
if ([[UIDevice currentDevice].systemVersion integerValue] > 6) theUrl = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"itms-apps://itunes.apple.com/app/id%@",appId];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:theUrl]];

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