Comments on post “Calls on Slack”
Ed Shelley
@mr_ed · @ChartMogul, @ Berlin Startup Radio
👏 🏻Great (if somewhat inevitable) move from the Slack team! But it's not going to replace Skype for me (and many other people) until there's a seamless way to include external people in those calls...
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Frank
@stillupmysleeve · Independent Designer & Photographer
@mr_ed There was an exodus away from Skype when they were acquired by MSFT. Did you not get the memo? 😋
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Luis Borges Quina
@quinaluis · CEO @apidaze, makers of @ottspott_co
@mr_ed I totally agree with you Ed. When Google open sourced WebRTC (the technology behind Screenhero) I heard everywhere around the world announcing "Skype is dead" ... this was back in 2012! I think calls on Slack is a GREAT feature and the least you can ask to a collaborative platform. However, I don't see 1:1 calls (in the free plan) kill massively Hangouts and Skype. In enterprises, people will still use MS Lync or other WebRTC client solutions like BlueJeans. Ottspott.co offers Slack teams the ability to get external calls from regular phones and allows also to call mobile and landlines with slash commands. A perfect fit with Calls on Slack :-)
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Luis Borges Quina
@quinaluis · CEO @apidaze, makers of @ottspott_co
@stillupmysleeve @mr_ed Frank, when Slack will offer free group audio/video conf, + mobile I agree Skype and Hangouts will suffer. For the moment 1:1 is great but having to pay for what you have for free with Skype and Hangouts will keep a lot of teams away.
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