Voice - the synchronous complement to our async world of communications
There is a small article on GigaOm about the future of Voice being 'apps'. It is somewhat content free, but it does, tangentially, make two interesting points A Juniper study that sez. 80% of the VoIP users in 2016 will be doing it through apps on their smartphones These apps are not necessarily specific 'phone' apps (e.g., softphones) Which pretty much ties in with a CounterPath blog post that made the rounds earlier which pointed out that Softphones are really passé. They are a thing of the past. It’s all about endpoints that are device shiftable... communications has revolutionized itself through the hands of end users driven by technologies and innovations not in the plans of the legacy care takers of the telecommunications sector Or, to put it differently, the focus is shifting away (at an increasing pace!) from soft-phones, and into various endpoints that happen to incorporate calling. This is - obviously - particular...