Everyone seems to hate the new Skype
Microsoft’s radical redesign of Skype isn’t going down well. While Android users have had access to the new Skype design for a month, the refresh only debuted on iPhone a couple of weeks ago. Ratings of the Skype app on Apple’s App Store have plummeted worldwide since the new Skype launched. In the UK App Store Skype is now rated at just 1 star, while ratings have fallen from 3.5 stars in the US to just 1.5 stars. The same is happening across European App Store ratings for Skype, and the feedback appears to be very similar.
“This latest update is the most thrown-together looking thing I've seen in a long time,” says one reviewer. “The layout looks and feels nothing like Skype, the chat system is a mess and the Highlights system just...