Is Facetime a phone call or call over the internet? In other words, when traveling overseas, will Facetime usage be billed as an (expensive) phone call?
Facetime is definitely wifi only. Note that some countries block VOIP services, including Facetime, so you will want to check on that beforehand. I have also found in my limited experience with Facetime that once you have a wifi connection established, turning off 3G helps a lot in keeping it especially if the signal strength is weak.
Did they say that, or did they say, "open standard"?
Can't see Apple just letting Android/Windows Phone 7 phones get FaceTime.
When Apple merges iChat, iMessage, and FaceTime into one application on both iOS and OS X, then we can revisit all that talk, I think.
You can't have an open standard without having it public and, you know, open. It seems that a communication protocol is most useful if others want to use it too, that's why it was promised to become open, isn't it?
It's been almost two years since it was announced, is it too early to expect that it would have already been opened?
When Apple creates something that is meant to be used by everyone, everyone shies away from it.
iChat. 2004. Used the best of existing protocols. Apple wanted everyone else to make their stuff compatible with it.
Everyone refused. And I still don't know why. Now we have these Skype people who won't integrate Skype with anything…
Ah, whatever.
From Wikipedia:
"In February 2004, AOL introduced AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) version 5.5 for Windows users, which enabled video, but not audio, chats over the AIM protocol and was compatible with Apple's iChat AV."
So, not everyone refused.
Skype announced within a week that they wanted to integrate FaceTime. Apple still haven't released the protocol though.
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Does anyone have any idea, what happened with the plans for making the specifications to FT public?
Did they say that, or did they say, "open standard"?
Can't see Apple just letting Android/Windows Phone 7 phones get FaceTime.
When Apple merges iChat, iMessage, and FaceTime into one application on both iOS and OS X, then we can revisit all that talk, I think.
Did they say that, or did they say, "open standard"?
Can't see Apple just letting Android/Windows Phone 7 phones get FaceTime.
When Apple merges iChat, iMessage, and FaceTime into one application on both iOS and OS X, then we can revisit all that talk, I think.
You can't have an open standard without having it public and, you know, open. It seems that a communication protocol is most useful if others want to use it too, that's why it was promised to become open, isn't it?
It's been almost two years since it was announced, is it too early to expect that it would have already been opened?
It's been almost two years since it was announced, is it too early to expect that it would have already been opened?
You mean barely a year and a half.
You mean barely a year and a half.
So? Clearly not "tomorrow", as the late Mr Jobs said.
So? Clearly not "tomorrow", as the late Mr Jobs said.
When Apple creates something that is meant to be used by everyone, everyone shies away from it.
iChat. 2004. Used the best of existing protocols. Apple wanted everyone else to make their stuff compatible with it.
Everyone refused. And I still don't know why. Now we have these Skype people who won't integrate Skype with anything?
Ah, whatever.
When Apple creates something that is meant to be used by everyone, everyone shies away from it.
iChat. 2004. Used the best of existing protocols. Apple wanted everyone else to make their stuff compatible with it.
Everyone refused. And I still don't know why. Now we have these Skype people who won't integrate Skype with anything…
Ah, whatever.
From Wikipedia:
"In February 2004, AOL introduced AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) version 5.5 for Windows users, which enabled video, but not audio, chats over the AIM protocol and was compatible with Apple's iChat AV."
So, not everyone refused.
Skype announced within a week that they wanted to integrate FaceTime. Apple still haven't released the protocol though.
Skype announced within a week that they wanted to integrate FaceTime. Apple still haven't released the protocol though.
Link?
Microsoft has also purchased Skype in the interim. I imagine Apple might have reservations there.
Link?
http://www.electronista.com/articles...e.as.standard/
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7...nt;contentBody
Microsoft has also purchased Skype in the interim. I imagine Apple might have reservations there.
Skype is not the issue here, FT as an open standard is.