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And when you screw off the wheel it can double as a mop!

What exactly does it help to have your video-feed drive around on a broomstick?

I can see the entertainment value for a couple days. But when it's time to get work done again I sure as hell don't see people preferring a video broomstick next to their desk over a plain old skype-window...




Not sure what you're getting at by "drive around on a broomstick." To be sure, the article is more breathless than it needs to be. WebRTC seems to my untutored eye to be a boring, practical, good idea.

Skype is a proprietary service which (last I checked) still requires you to locally install their binary, and is completely under the control of one company... as a risk-averse person I wouldn't bet the farm building on top of any technology which requires me to swear fealty to Skype or Facebook, because who knows what will happen in a year?




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