Skype and the iPhone

Quite lot of words have been written about Skype’s new iPhone app. As several people have asked me about this, here’s a quick round up of what’s being said:

Michael Arrington accuses Skype of being arrogant (his pot/kettle/blackness interface is nestled in the early comments)

Om Malik gushes

Techdirt tells us it’s not for Canadians – would love to know the real Techdirt on this story.

Whilst over at All About Symbian, in a fantastic post, Steve Lichfield tells it like it is. Why won’t Apple let an app run in the background? Steve will tell you why.

Why hasn’t Morodo made a MO-Call app for the iPhone?

You can’t run an app in the background – unless you jailbreak
You can’t make calls over the native data-bearer (3G) – unless you jailbreak and use VPN

(And Apple really don’t like you jaibreaking any more).

So, how useful is a telephony app for the iPhone that is going to switch off when you receive an incoming call over the GSM network? Well, just read Steve Lichfield’s post if you haven’t already.

Here at Morodo we decided to focus on the main utility that customers are after – making a call – and we created a great set of MO-Call pages for iPhone that enable low-cost international calls – from the browser. As we use GSM as the bearer for our call, call waiting will work as you would expect it to.

Got an iPhone? Give MO-Call a try. Bookmark www.mo-call.com from the Safari browser on your iPhone and you’ll enjoy instant access to great international call rates direct from your dashboard. It even works in Canada…