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tinus_hn on July 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the...

I would imagine Microsoft abandoned direct peer to peer communication because of patent trolling, just like Apple had to change Facetime to no longer support direct connections.

api on July 20, 2016 [–]

I've heard mobile -- they found that direct P2P was too taxing on (earlier) mobile devices.

Wimpy mobile devices have been a significant factor in pushing everything to the cloud.

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