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Whatever gain (if any) they had from claiming that FaceTime would become an open industry standard must certainly dwarfed by the embarrassment of being unable t
by ugh 15y ago
Whatever gain (if any) they had from claiming that FaceTime would become an open industry standard must certainly dwarfed by the embarrassment of being unable to actually make that happen.
Or, to put it another way, had Steve Jobs known that their attempt of making FaceTime an open industry standard would fail (for whatever reason) he would never have said that Apple wants FaceTime to become open. It just wouldn’t make any sense.
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- varunsrin 15y agoDo you really think that a company with the engineering talent that Apple has couldn't make an existing standard open? More than likely, it was something else that took higher priority (improving performance, version 2.0, supporting OS upgrades etc) and standardizing FaceTime took a backseat to these other needs
- mrkurt 15y agoI dunno, they got a great deal of press when they announced FaceTime, and a huge amount of it harped on the "open standard" feature. A year later, no one really cares. It's not an embarrassment. It's a shrug.