Skype-Toshiba pre-bundle: convenient but not transformative
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As fellow blogger Tom Keating notes, these will include the Satellite, Tecra, Portégé and Qosmio product lines. He tells us the Skype-featured Toshiba models will feature built-in webcams and microphones and customers will be able to see the branded offering with a Skype logo found adjacent to the units’ built-in webcam.
In addition, customers will be able to access a Skype icon available on the desktop to quickly and easily download the very newest Skype build from a co-branded Skype and Toshiba landing page.
I'm sure Skype paid a bundle for this real estate. But given that it is so easy to download and install Skype over a web connection- on Toshiba laptops as well as most other Internet-ready devices- how many more users will come to Skype via the Toshiba bundle that wouldn't have before?