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		ComputerGuru on June 22, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Skype Opens Up SkypeKit SDK To All Devices And Des... I'm betting it's a platform-agnostic API. They need to be able to run from both .NET (Windows 7 devices), *nix (embedded systems), Java (Android, BlackBerry), and C/C++ (iPhone) environments. Most likely it'll be some sort of SOAP/REST API for authentication and management combined with a SIP or SIP-like standardized VoIP protocol.

tomjen3 on June 22, 2010 [–]

I doubt that - it wouldn't make sense to write something that wasteful (in terms of computation, not tech) for something that primarily target embedded stuff.

Most likely you will have a relatively simple C api (not C++, as the C++ isn't likely to be portable across compilers).

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