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From quite a long time, popular instant messenger and video-calling service Skype have been updating its product with loads of new features like Group Video Calling or enabling the users to hide their IP Address from prying eyes. Now, in its latest reports, the company is again planning to shut down its Qik video messaging app.
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The company introduced Qik video messaging app back in 2014 to compete with other rival services like WeChat or Snapchat and the Microsoft-owned VoIP service has now decided to cease its app forever and take it off the shelves by March 24. However, the company says that closing down Skype Qik video messaging app should not be much of a worry for users as all its features are already made available and are included in the VoIP service's core app and after March 24, users won't be able to send or receive any messages from the app.
In their official blog post, the team added that "In 2014, we launched Skype Qik, a mobile video messaging app to help share moments with groups of friends. Since then, we have learned that many of you are already doing these things in Skype, and as a result, we migrated some of Qik's most used features into the Skype app you already know and love."
The launching of Qik app helped Microsoft grabbing a spot in the mobile sector, which had always been dominated by other apps like Line, Viber and several others. The company launched this app to facilitate users with the ability to send short video messages of 42 seconds to other users as they do with Snapchat and other apps. The application also borrowed features like message deletion from rival apps.
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The company after introducing Group Video Calling feature for Android, iOS and Windows 10 Mobile last month actually rolled out the feature officially last week on all platforms. It is worth mentioning that Skype already supported group video calls but only for those who opted for Skype for Business, however, the feature is now available to non-subscribers too.
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