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Jobs: "we’re going to make FaceTime an open industry standard." Should be interesting.
by tvon 16y ago
Jobs: "we’re going to make FaceTime an open industry standard."
Should be interesting.
- gokhan 16y agoThey have to. It will be dead otherwise, based on the current prerequisites (iOS4 to iOS4, only on wifi)
- FluidDjango 16y agoI seem to recall he said the "only on wifi" was a temporary thing - while "we work with cell carriers" (I noted the plural: carrierS).
- jodrellblank 16y agoHello from outside America; we don't have AT&T.
- tsally 16y agoHello from inside America; you don't really want AT&T.
- tibbon 16y agoI have to wonder how long it will take to work out with AT&T. Skype and tethering took a year for AT&T to get around to.
- jokermatt999 16y agoThat was easily the most interesting part of the keynote to me (Android user). I already assumed that video calling from Apple would push something similar forward in the rest of the phone community, but the fact that they're going to make it an open standard is phenomenal. Of course, we'll see what they mean by "open standard" after the recent debacle with Safari's "HTML5 Demo", but I'd like to remain optimistic. Webkit was a nice gift, and hopefully this will be something similar.
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- antidaily 16y agolike the MiniDisplayPort.
- earcar 16y agoIt's actually based on already existing open standards, see http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/06/apple-wwdc-2010-384-rm-eng.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/06/apple-...
- tvon 16y agoTrue, but being based on open standards doesn't necessarily mean that the end result won't have anything proprietary in it. Jobs saying they are going to make FaceTime an open standard seems to imply that they are adding something of their own to the mix.
- masklinn 16y agoThere was a slide pointing out that it was based on existing technologies already.
- kilps 16y agoWhat have all the other video-calling capable phones been using thus far? Is there no existing standard?