Organizing its first IPO, Skype has is no longer united. In the record prepared by Skype for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission the producer wrote down what it is mostly afraid of. The most important threat to Skype is software platforms such as Apple.

It is asserted that “for example, Apple can at any moment get rid of our programs presence in its Apple Store without consulting us, thus limiting Skype’s presence in Apple iPads, iPhones and iTouches. So, they can easily make their own software such as Apple Face Time more competitive”. (This article is our own free interpretation of what has happened).

And other online software stores are not exceptions here. This can happen with any online software store including those for Android-based devices. The Skype committee thinks that “owners of online software stores have ultimate control over services and products based on their software. If they suppose that Skype is very competitive or prevents them from promoting their own similar product, they will get rid of Skype or significantly limit its options”.

Also, mobile phone companies threaten Skype. Skype’s options can be reduced within their networks anytime. The company goes on stating that Skype’s business strategy, however, “depends on the possibility to go on promoting its usage with mobile devices. We have already gone through from such actions in Europe”.

And finally Skype is afraid of its own weakness. It was initially produced for individuals while the company is going to make most of the money from business clients. “We might lack for a possibility to create services capable to satisfy the business class because its purposes differ from those of individual users who we are used to work with. We have already done our best to increase the options for our business class services, but this might not be enough. And it is still uncertain if we will be able to pay off the expenses spent on producing the services”.

And this, it turn, will make us unable to compete with companies working with the business class services because we won’t be able to crack on the “loyalty of business clients to software providers” and “old-fashioned views of IT-specialists who have no wish to choose less diverse Skype services”.

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