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Facetime needs two years to get going. It's been on iPhone4, Mac, and iPad2 for 11, 5, and 3 months respectively. Once iPhone 3G/3GS and iPad1 users get new dev

Facetime needs two years to get going. It's been on iPhone4, Mac, and iPad2 for 11, 5, and 3 months respectively. Once iPhone 3G/3GS and iPad1 users get new devices and Mac users buy/upgrade to Lion, FaceTime will be available to a lot more people. So, after this holiday season, I would expect FaceTime to be a much bigger deal. iMessages can hit the ground running from day one, since it is available down to iPhone 3GS and does not need new hardware. Also, Apple merged it with the existing Messages app, so I assume it will decide whether to SMS someone or iMessage someone for you. It's a win for iOS users either way.

bergie 15y ago
It is a win for iOS users who only deal with other iOS users. Out of the people I've SMSd or IMd in last week maybe about 10% have an iDevice. And many of those have iPads that they don't always carry with them.
- phlux 15y ago
  >It is a win for iOS users who only deal with other iOS users. It is a win for fanboi hipsters. FTFY
- burke 15y ago
  > It is a win for iOS users who only deal with other iOS users. No, it is a win for iOS users who deal with /any/ other iOS users. I would imagine that's most of them.
nicksergeant 15y ago
The availability of devices aren't the problem, it's the WiFi-only problem. The times I'd like to "FaceTime" with people the most are times I'm not on WiFi.