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Specifically, there were major lawsuits over patent infringement immediately after Facetime launched.
by erik 9y ago
Specifically, there were major lawsuits over patent infringement immediately after Facetime launched.
- twoodfin 9y agoAnd those lawsuits forced Apple to re-engineer how Facetime worked, from peer-to-peer direct connections to a more Apple-intermediated model[1]. At that point, creating an open standard is less interesting, since you can only communicate with folks using the same "relay server" network. [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/report-after-patent-loss-apple-tweaks-facetime-and-logs-500000-complaints/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/report-after-pat...