The company may or may not be supporting Microsoft's next-gen smartphone OS.
Reports yesterday that Skype will not launch a version of its smartphone for Windows Phone 7 sent shockwaves through the blogosphere. Until they were debunked, that is.
The original report came from Australian site Smarthouse, which reported a speech by Skype's Asia Pacific VP Dan Neary in which he appeared to say Skype is not developing a Windows Phone 7 client.
The story has turned into an illustration of the dangers of reported speech, however.
MobileTechWorld did some digging, and ended up with not quite the words from the horse's mouth, but an account from the guy who asked the horse the question about Windows Phone 7 during his speech.
"Initially Dan was defensive and indicated there would be no support for the platform as the company was focusing on other opportunities (getting a proper iPad client out the door) however when pressed as to why Windows Phone 7 wasn’t even on the horizon for Skype, he backed down slightly and indicated (reading between the lines) that Skype would be reviewing Windows Phone 7 support after the platform launches and seeing how the market develops."
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So there you have it. There's still a story here: waiting till the platform launches to see how the market develops is hardly a ringing endorsement.
Even so, Skype has been a popular and innovative app on its existing platforms - iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian and Android. Microsoft may have its own VoIP ambitions and the desire to tightly control the WinPho 7 platform, but Skype would still surely be a desirable app to have at launch.
