Skype withdraws support for Windows Mobile

The firm has not made much of a splash about the decision, and there is no obvious announcement on the Skype and Skype Lite download pages. However, a forum discussion posted on the Wmpoweruser site drew a comment from a Skype marketing guy, Peter Parkes. Reading between the lines and looking at Statcounter's user figures,

The official reasoning from Skype is that the Windows Mobile version of their client simply doesn't live up to the quality of their iPhone and Symbian apps, thus they have decided to discontinue development of the software

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Skype noted that it wants to provide as best an experience it can, and Windows Mobile currently doesn't live up to that expectation – of course, they will no doubt have a client for Windows Phone 7 in the works, but then, this leaves the whole situation rather confusing. There's no reason for them to remove the current application because a new version is most likely on the way, and a lot of people are happy with the way the current Skype application is on Windows Mobile.