While you've been quibbling amongst yourselves Yahoo Mobile has stolen a march on you both and has hit the ground running with Video-chat capability on the iPhone 3GS & 4/iPad/iPod Touch platform. Android and WP7 will inevitably follow in due course

Works like a charm too, so to the Boy in Blue, what you goin' do? And to the Girl in Green, don't be so mean!

Wait, did they just say having iphone4s use skype ruins their reputation? Well that's hard to argue against.

Handbags at dawn, always bring a smile to my face.

It's hard to make heads or tails of this right now, but I can say one thing to anyone who thinks the internet is not headed towards open interoperability: life will only get harder unless you start using that brain.

Skype would only be shooting itself in the foot to do this. All major players are working on implementing open standards in some form or another. If you are going to use SIP, don't be surprised if someone thinks you're trying to "be open and play nicely with others." And then don't be surprised when they call you out for being so stupid as not to see the benefits. Competition is healthy, spread the word.

Its not really their network - its called the internet and I'd rather they didn't try and 'own' part of it.
Sitting on the information highway stopping everyone passing and demanding tolls should be classed as highway robbery - just because its high tech doesnt make it honest.