This was a bit of an &quot;existential&quot; question for me over the past years. I&#x27;ve been wondering if it was just me doing something I shouldn&#x27;t be doing or if Skype was really going that bad, specially on Android. &quot;It&#x27;s not possible, they have a successful product. They wouldn&#x27;t fuck it up. Has to be me...&quot;. I kind of kept creating excuses for it when it wasn&#x27;t working: &quot;Skype looks pretty heavy, I don&#x27;t know if I should expect it to run smoothly on my phone...&quot; or even blame the phones themselves (which have always been on the flagship side for the time).<p>But in this day and age, bad performance of apps are kind of &quot;unacceptable&quot;. If it doesn&#x27;t work right, something else will, and I&#x27;ll have no problems abandoning the bad product. And guess what: Skype is shitty. I often get message notifications on my phone hours after they arrived on my desktop (that is, if I get a notification at all). It&#x27;s slow and clunky and a pain to even start a call. I dread the thought of having to use it on my phone. I&#x27;ve asked to delay meetings so I could take them from my computer. Or even spend money on Google Voice and make that international call through the regular phone app. So, I abandoned it. I don&#x27;t suggest Skype anymore to my contacts when I have a call. You know, &quot;Ok, so I&#x27;ll call you at 9am. Skype&#x27;s good?&quot;. Not anymore. It&#x27;s usually Hangouts.<p>This is not how these things are supposed to be.