Hmm, I’ve just visited my Gmail box to find that Google is now offering PC to Phone calls. What’s the problem you might ask? Well seems like Google is taking on yet another field. I’d expect people at Skype to be, well, not so very calm with such a competitor in sight.
I don’t suppose they’ll have much problem getting a hefty amount of market share though. First of all they seem do be able to make stuff that actually works(unlike Skype’s service that just stops working whenever you need it most). Google Talk has proven itself reliable (at least to me).
Secondly they own a mobile operating system so it would be interesting to see whether this will make it on your handsets folks, and with the free calls to the US and Canada they’re likely to make a lot of telco operators angry should they decide to go for it.
It’ll be interesting to see how this evolves. Either a Wave type service or a Gmail type service. They’ve sure given it a head start with all those free calls. I wonder what’s it going to be called when you make calls. Googleing is already taken as a verb.
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