Mass hysteria?
jcrouch:
Quote from: nitzan on May 16, 2014, 11:00:50 am
I'm really hoping for all you guys that VestaLink actually exists in two years. Their entire userbase paid for 1-2 years upfront which means starting today they have no revenue coming in, at all. A year is a long time having to pay your carriers (and yourself) without getting revenue. I'm sure they'll get some signups through word-of-mouth, and they did increase their prices 2-3 times, but still - a handful of signups is not going to support a company for a year. The only way they may last is if Ryan Tilton is investing this money rather than blowing it away on DJ gear, lol...
I would love to know roughly how many VoIP users some of these companies have. I signed up with Phone Power and paid the 59.99 for 1 year up front. Each 1000 people you sign up for that is only $60k. You would need several thousand signups to keep going.
Maybe they are making a decent income on small business users?
jcrouch:
Quote from: FreeServiceForLife on May 16, 2014, 05:34:49 am
Google Voice on OBi still up and running - glad I didn't bite,,,
Z
Oh, and are you naive enough to believe a company like Google would just change its mind like that and not tell anyone about it? Shutting down a service like this isn't just flipping a switch or keying in a command somewhere. There is a team of people somewhere handling this shutdown. And they have to be very careful to only shut down certain parts of it and not disrupt there other GV services. So lots of testing at each step I would imagine.
Give them some time, it will be gone soon enough.
aopisa:
Quote from: jcrouch on May 16, 2014, 11:19:07 am
Quote from: FreeServiceForLife on May 16, 2014, 05:34:49 am
Google Voice on OBi still up and running - glad I didn't bite,,,
Z
Oh, and are you naive enough to believe a company like Google would just change its mind like that and not tell anyone about it? Shutting down a service like this isn't just flipping a switch or keying in a command somewhere. There is a team of people somewhere handling this shutdown. And they have to be very careful to only shut down certain parts of it and not disrupt there other GV services. So lots of testing at each step I would imagine.
Give them some time, it will be gone soon enough.
As one who jumped ship due to the cutoff hive mentality, I have yet to find ANY official evidence that GOOGLE said they would be shutting down XMPP support based on a May 15 deadline. They said they would not support it at some point, but they did not specifically set a date. In a Google+ blog post there was statement that app developers were to stop using unauthorized use of GV and to transition users by May 15, 2014.
Could it be that somewhere along the line along with Obi's announcement that these two facts were combined? Sorry for the pun, but perhaps this is an example of the old "telephone game"?
Crow550:
Perhaps they are allowing 3rd Parties to use there new API for G-Voice they recently released before closing XMPP entirely: http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=8092.0
ceg3:
Quote from: nitzan on May 16, 2014, 11:00:50 am
I'm really hoping for all you guys that VestaLink actually exists in two years. Their entire userbase paid for 1-2 years upfront which means starting today they have no revenue coming in, at all. A year is a long time having to pay your carriers (and yourself) without getting revenue. I'm sure they'll get some signups through word-of-mouth, and they did increase their prices 2-3 times, but still - a handful of signups is not going to support a company for a year. The only way they may last is if Ryan Tilton is investing this money rather than blowing it away on DJ gear, lol...
Ah, no end to the Vestalink hating. :D According to their blog they are doing very well during this period of GV change over and if they shutdown tomorrow nobody would lose a huge amount of money. They are saying they have grown 30 times from what they were doing before all this started. http://www.vestalink.com/blog/ Let's hope they will be serving some fresh crow in two years to all their doubters. ;D
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