Skype to focus on iPad, iPhone, Android, not Windows Phone 7

14.05.2010
Skype, one of the go-to apps for any mobile platform these days, is taking a wait-and-see approach to Microsoft's latest mobile platform while it focuses on iPhone, iPad, Android, and others.

At a press briefing in Sydney, Australia, Skype's Asia Pacific vice president, Dan Neary, said that a Windows Phone 7 client is "," but that "the question is how quickly we're going to get to it." Further turning Skype's back on Microsoft for the meantime, Neary continued: "We feel that the best areas for us to develop are on the operating systems that we currently support -- iPhone, Symbian, BlackBerry and now Android."

That certainly isn't a "no, not never," but Skype is clearly not leaping out of its chair to start Windows Mobile 7 development. The VoIP company seems to be bearish on Microsoft's mobile platforms in general. Back in February, it altogether, citing a poor user experience across the myriad of Windows Mobile devices.

Perhaps more interesting to owners of Apple's mobile gadgets, Neary stated at the press event that . The company is also pushing hard into video chatting, as it unveiled a for Windows, and Neary hinted that Skype might support video-chatting if it arrives on Apple's next iPhone (which we ), expected to be released this summer.