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Skype on Android has a permanent icon there. That team should be ashamed of themselves.

Maybe. But I think it's their way of saying "Skype is running and killing your battery."

Yep, android has no other mechanism of showing if a program is running or not, except for opening the process manager. Some apps die as soon as you switch to another and some keep running even if you select the explicit exit-button provided by the app itself.

One could argue that the skype should be located under the common sync-settings though, such as email. But i don't know if that allows fast enough update rates for IM.

Nope. On Android, unless you keep a process in the foreground (with an ongoing notification), the system can kill it at any time. So that's perfectly reasonable on Android.

Right. And even then, if you open a resource intensive page in Chrome, it will often kill processes that have ongoing notifications.

Yes, I just tapped on my Skype notification, and Skype had died (restarted when I switched to it), but left the notification up.

This behavior makes me miss Skype calls from my mother.

Skype behavior is really the worst of all worlds.

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