Voice Over IP

I really don't see Voice Over IP having that big of an effect on the way that we use telephone technology. I've used some of the free software before to just check out how things work and frankly I found it annoying and somewhat hard to use. There was a slight delay that made it so that each one of us was constantly starting to talk and then waiting as we realized the other one had already started and then tried to start again. Besides that aspect of things there is the growing trend of abandoning land lines in favor of cell phones. So if a user doesn't think that a regular phone is necessary they are very unlikely to find a phone that needs an internet connection and a computer an improvement. The free long distance doesn't even factor in as a major selling point since most cell phone plans now offer the same thing. So while it is an interesting technology I just don't see it being that useful or necessary.