WebRTC - Use your browser as skype :)

[NaMaan]

Re: WebRTC - Use your browser as skype

@TofiBaba

You just nailed it Nami. WebRTC is not getting any traction. The govt doesn’t want independant encryption (without backdoors, unlike Skype). Microsoft is straight competition, Apple is not best of friends with Google. Yahoo is a good contender but they have partnerships with M$ (which seems to be dwindling, so there’s hope there).

Firefox is supporting as Google is financing a big chunk of their operations. As with most tech its all about lobying it. Google keeps making waves but its ruffling a lot of feathers. What with Google Fiber and Project Loon, its taking on the world, FTW!

True, but there are two major factors here. First WebRTC is not only for p2p communication, but p2p data transfer. It means that you can download data on one client and can share it across different clients. Now think about Netflix or Hulu. Right now their model is that everyone downloads from server, which is HUGE load on machines/bandwidth. What if they change their data sharing model with WebRTC, and instead of downloading same movie over and over again, they can let it download ones and after that it will be shared among clients. More like torrents.

Second factor is that WebRTC is pretty new and more like POC for now. As soon as big companies will start using it, then all other browsers will have to adopt to it. More like WebSockets. Plus telecom industry is in hot waters already. Sooner or later everything will be IP based anyways. I think WebRTC is way forward. Anything with a web browser is now your communication device.