Skype

The latest 5.0.0 update of Skype is atrocious.

The app’s main interface is no longer a slim bar of contacts (that’s what iChat and Yahoo have always done), instead it occupies the same amount of screen real estate as iTunes, looks like iTunes and simply sucks.

I’ve never been a big fan of Skype’s user interface and have found the buttons, pop-ups and user-software interactions confusing. But the latest update makes the app impossible to use. I no longer am willing to keep it open, from now on its default mode is going to be Hidden.

And now we seem to have a new service called Skype Access added and enabled by default. What were they thinking!