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Type: Scientist Quotes Category: Swedish Scientist Quotes Year of Birth: 1966 Nationality: Swedish Find on Amazon: Niklas Zennstrom Related Authors: Thomas Huxley Jean Rostand Alexis de Tocqueville Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Paul Nurse Kenneth G. Wilson Peter D. Mitchell |
And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.
Niklas Zennstrom Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free. Niklas Zennstrom At no charge, if they both have the software installed. Or by using SkypeOut if they need to call a land line or mobile at low rates. Niklas Zennstrom At the office, we actually don't have a land phone line. We use Skype mostly, and mobile phones to receive calls from people not on Skype. Niklas Zennstrom But that technology enabled the movie industry to make much more revenue. The single largest revenue source for the movie industry is videos. Niklas Zennstrom If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype. Niklas Zennstrom If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently. Niklas Zennstrom In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online. Niklas Zennstrom It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that. Niklas Zennstrom It was more a technical proof of concept that it was possible to transfer files between two end users rather than going through servers. Niklas Zennstrom People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular. Niklas Zennstrom Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. Niklas Zennstrom Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection. Niklas Zennstrom Skype to Skype lets you call anyone else in the world who has downloaded the Skype application on their computer or PDA, for free. Niklas Zennstrom The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. Niklas Zennstrom Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet. Niklas Zennstrom They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing. Niklas Zennstrom We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call. Niklas Zennstrom We don't have any launch dates yet for any of those platforms. It's going to be wonderful to be able to make a Skype call from cell phones or PDAs. Niklas Zennstrom We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. Niklas Zennstrom We have a much higher penetration in countries like Brazil and Poland, where phone rates are high and service is hit or miss in some places. Niklas Zennstrom We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting. Niklas Zennstrom We were founded on Aug. 29, 2003, and now have 70 employees, about half in London and half in Tallinn, Estonia, and some in Luxembourg. Niklas Zennstrom What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines. Niklas Zennstrom When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff. Niklas Zennstrom With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense. Niklas Zennstrom |
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