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Close, he said they were going to make it standard (but then never did): "Now, FaceTime is based on a lot of open standards — H.264 video, AAC audio, and a bun
by justinsaccount 5y ago
Close, he said they were going to make it standard (but then never did):
"Now, FaceTime is based on a lot of open standards — H.264 video, AAC audio, and a bunch of alphabet soup acronyms — and we're going to take it all the way. We're going to the standards bodies starting tomorrow, and we’re going to make FaceTime an open industry standard."
- chrischen 5y agoI believe it was something to do with the VirnetX patent troll lawsuits that prevented them from fulling that standard.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoThat Texas Eastern Court single handedly held back progress for at least a decade for everyone in the world with their insane patent troll rulings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_f...
- twobitshifter 5y agoThanks for the correction. I’ve also read that FaceTime had to change from p2p to using a central server for call coordination after they were sued for patent violations. I wonder if that’s really what prevented it from being opened up. https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/31/21543315/apple-ordered-pay-virnetx-patent-troll-facetime-vpn https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/31/21543315/apple-ordered-p...