Weekend Project: Designed Skype for iPad for fun

I've been scratching my head as to why Skype has really dropped the ball on their iOS client. The released Skype for iPhone. The most recent significant change they made was to allow it being used as a background app (one which kills your battery within hours).

Aside from that, they act like they didn't even know the iPad came out. Doing even the most basic "port" of Skype to the iPad couldn't take more than a day of developer time if they had the original Xcode project for the iPhone app.

As-is, Skype for iOS is really clunky and does some pretty stupid stuff (like taking 45 minutes as it tries to download every conversation I've had for the past 3 years and nearly crashing the phone). I can't fathom why Skype is ignoring it. Unless someone did something stupid, like loose the code/project.

When I scroll down, the bar at the bottom of the screen stays in place in the middle of the image. So that's a bit irritating; it ends up covering up the middle of the image with a bunch of social media junk.

really cool man. is there a landscape view? also i feel like it makes more sense for the current call to have other current convos in the margin instead of all online contacts. that way you can easily toggle through conversations. that would also require a "contacts" menu option, which could replace the "chats" menu option. awesome stuff though :)