So the big drama award this week really has to go to Fring and Skype. Just as Fring launched their video calling app to compete with the iPhone 4 FaceTime app, the company got into a blog-war of words with Skype over alleged blocking of service.
In a case of He-said She-said, Skype and Fring both allege different things. Fring fired off a blog post claiming that Skype had blocked them from using their service. Skype claims that Fring was violating its API terms and that Fring voluntarily stopped using Skype for its service. I guess if Skype told Fring that they couldn't use their service because they were violating their API terms that would essentially be blocking but it's not that they have set up a physical software block on Fring software.
FierceWireless had a good Editor's Corner on the whole fracas, bringing up the real concern of the whole thing: Why are these guys fighting when the services the companies are offering are going to cost consumers a fortune on their new limited cellular data plans?
For more:
- read the GigaOm post with all the back and forth
- read the FierceWireless editorial on the Fring/Skype fight
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