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It would be nice if they just used SIP in the first place so that other systems could interoperate with FaceTime. Typical Apple.

• themartorana 10y ago
  Comment below says SIP was covered by this spurious patent, so that wouldn't have made much difference.
• givinguflac 10y ago
  While you're irrationally hating, you should know FaceTime was originally planned to be cross platform. The need to completely change how it worked obviously stopped that from happening.
  • braderhart 10y ago
    What proof?
    • Navarr 10y ago
      Apple did initially claim Facetime would be an open standard. > Upon the launch of the iPhone 4, Jobs stated that Apple would immediately start working with standards bodies to make the FaceTime protocol an "open industry standard". claims Wikipedia. Other websites also highlight the "open standard" it was supposed to become: [1]: http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/facetime-open-standard-never-happened/2012-12-06 http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/facetime-open-standard-... [2]: https://redd.it/1xuzif https://redd.it/1xuzif [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2605498 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2605498 [4]: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4547345?start=0&tstart=0 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4547345?start=0&tstart=... [5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaceTime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaceTime
      • erlehmann_ 10y ago
        Whenever someone mentions FaceTime, I immediately think of this blog post “Steve Jobs sometimes lies to you”: https://zachholman.com/posts/steve-jobs-sometimes-lies/ https://zachholman.com/posts/steve-jobs-sometimes-lies/
  • lmm 10y ago
    Or provided a convenient excuse for what Apple had actually planned to do all along.