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It's suspected that this was thwarted by the VirnetX lawsuit. And Apple had to do a "design around" [2]. https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-promised-to-make-
by skunkworker 5y ago
It's suspected that this was thwarted by the VirnetX lawsuit. And Apple had to do a "design around" [2].
https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-promised-to-make-facetime-open-source-its-time/ https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-promised-to-make-faceti...
[2] 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...
- pfranz 5y agoI doubt this actually matters, but it looks like almost all those patents expire very soon. US7418504B2 - 2021-08-05 US6839759B2 - 2019-10-29 (expired) US7490151B2 - 2022-01-24 I'm guessing rearchitecting to circumvent the patents means they're not going to unrearchitect just to open it up. If I'm understanding things correctly, instead of p2p it gets tunneled through a server to avoid the patents. Since FaceTime launched, most services realized with more than 2 people you'd want to go through a server anyway (and you also get benefits of re-encoding for lower bit-rates). If you rely on Apple's servers to tunnel your call I imagine they're not going to open it up.
- varanauskas 5y agoStill I think 2 way calls would benefit customers by reducing lag and Apple by reducing server load if using p2p
- Aissen 5y agoWe now know this is false: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406303/imessage-android-eddy-cue-emails-apple-epic-deposition https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406303/imessage-android...
- latexr 5y agoThat link is about iMessage, not FaceTime.