[asterisk-users] MagicJack quality

[Steve Totaro]

As Michael Graves points out, people will hack it to run on thin
clients and why not virtual machines with very limited access?  Maybe
an AP with a USB port and OpenWRT or something?

Remember when NetZero really cost nothing?  I had a program someone
wrote to close the as Windows, later I figured out that if I removed a
dll file and then just put some junk in a text file and name it
whateverthefilewas.dll NetZero was free and I didn't have to use any
programs to close the ad windows.

Remember the free webhosts that put ads at the bottom of your page but
you did get decent free hosting.  Remember the scripts that came out
within weeks that eliminated those ads?

Thanks,
Steve T

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:53 PM, C. Savinovich
<c.savinovich at itntelecom.com> wrote:
>
>  As per the ads, if people ignore them or not, doesn't matter.  Advertisers
> will fall in love with the idea that the venue "reaches" 1 million people,
> or more.  As per the price of the service, they might be calculating the
> fact that the average monthly consumption of minutes on a softphone could be
> lower that the average monthly consumption on hardphones.  After all, having
> to have that cpu on to make the call, is a drag.
>
> CS
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Totaro
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 6:28 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] MagicJack quality
>
> I don't see Magicjack being around long.  The business model isn't
> sustainable without tons of ads, and even then, people will either
> ignore them if they are audio or if they are popups, they will simply
> close them or disable them.
>
> I might buy one just to hack it.  Has anyone sniffed it or poked
> around at all on lists?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve T
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:03 PM, C. Savinovich
> <c.savinovich at itntelecom.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Yes, I have designed two different webphones, granted, using third party
>> libraries, and magicjack's quality is better.  I acknowledge that.
>>
>>  Thank you, but referring me to someone's review won't help me much... I
> am
>> interested in the internals.  Regardless, their technique has a twist, and
> I
>> am a naturally very curious *technical* fellow.
>>
>> CS
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Joe Greco
>> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 5:41 PM
>> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] MagicJack quality
>>
>>> I am puzzled by the quality of magicjack.  I keep trying to figure out
> how
>>> they can the quality be that adequate.  Since Skype also has an excellent
>>> quality, that leaves me to believe that software based calls (softphones)
>>> could have and advantage over hardphones, provided there is a parameter
>> that
>>> those 2 companies are addressing.
>>
>> You are puzzled by the quality?
>>
>> http://www.laptopmag.com/review/voip/magicjack.aspx
>>
>> I don't know, but from the sounds of the comments, you'd get about just as
>> much quality out of an actual cigarette lighter, and probably a good bit
>> more usefulness.
>>
>> Nice EULA, by the way:
>>
>> http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/04/14/magicjacks-eula-says.html
>>
>> VoIP over the Internet isn't /that/ hard.
>>
>> ... JG
>> --
>> Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
>> "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and]
> then
>> I
>> won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail
>> spam(CNN)
>> With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many
>> apples.
>>
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