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I was shocked at how good the quality was in facetiming my in-laws on my wife's ipad. I've been using hangouts, signal, slack and duo for video calls and they w
by crowbahr 5y ago
I was shocked at how good the quality was in facetiming my in-laws on my wife's ipad. I've been using hangouts, signal, slack and duo for video calls and they were never nearly as crisp and nice as facetime was.
I think Discord was similarly good but... Discord just isn't what I'm going to voice call family on... realistically ever.
- puggsy 5y agoApple has more control over its platform and can ensure video acceleration works for all participants. Conference calls with a central server are particularly suspectible to "lowest common denominator" issues.
- crowbahr 5y agoThat makes a lot of sense. Vertical integration at its finest I guess.