"There are no Skype techno-enthusiasts out there evangelizing it because Skype is keeping all its dirty secrets to itself." But I am not.

I did not say, I read it, I thought it, but Jim Courtney of Skypejournal recorded it in one of his Weekend Musings… during an interview with Garrett Smith interviews Ted Wallingford.

“Do you think a service such as Skype will ever be suitable as a primary form of business communication for small medium businesses?

Wallingford: Not in its present form. It still has the fundamental drawback of being tied to a PC or Mac, in most cases. Plus, it's too secretive to become pervasive. There are no Skype techno-enthusiasts out there evangelizing it because Skype is keeping all its dirty secrets to itself. The inner-workings of Skype would have to be exposed in order for widespread business use to become common. If we knew how it worked, we could provide QoS measures, and then it would be an acceptable primary telephony solution for businesses.”

And here is my fantasy on the future …

Oh well, all this stuff did not exist 2 years ago. Let’s see what we have in 2 years from now. Until then I will use Fring to enables VoIP over Wi-Fi or 3G networks (using Skype on a Symbian phone is now possible). Maybe in the future we shall have a microskype embedded in a bluethooth dongle (that also contains the phone) or maybe those dongles will simply be recognized by their mac-address and gives us access to a voice-enabled weblog. We would not call it weblog anymore, but just our own (IP6) space, that contains music, files and stuff like that. With a simple voice command over the free p2p cloud (nobody will speak about Skype anymore, they will remember it as I remember netscape) but basically hackers (mainly people who worked in skype, but did not want to shut up anymore) will have leaked the secrets of Skype on the internet and broke the code of obfuscation… Then the skype code will have been taken up by all telecom to make their “this-and-that” brand of p2p-voip cellphones. Something like that… .

Then on the level of usage, all p2p/voip enabled instant messenger will actually use the Skype p2p cloud as global (or why not intergalactic) p2p superhighway to relay the call. For that you would have to pay of course, just like we pay now for relaying our call to other networks (pstn, pots, cellular). But due to nature of Skype in 2080 this p2p cloud will have gone totally out of control of the global governments and nothing is to be done about that. Every-time some smart skype/p2p blocker would try to detect the smart skype protocol, it would automatically change itself. Yes, it would have become self-aware…  Stupid New Phone.

Pitch that idea to your investor…

I miss my stupid Phone… (hello, hi, remember… not chatting nothing going on the matter of iPhone and the emergence of convergence… pffff). Tonight I even saw in a small store somewhere in Kuala Lumpur some old cellular Motorola Cellphones. I guess from around the 1990–ties or earlier. I asked the store-keeper, if they where for sale, but he kept repeating “fol sale only, demonstlation model”. Maybe he tought I had lost my mind of something. One of these I will go back and buy them for almost nothing (he mentioned something lie 10 usd… for both of them…), before he throws them away… in 2020 I can then sell them as vintage phones, collectibles on Ebay.

I guess one day I will be able to sell my Skype phone collection as collectibles too…