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Speaking of opening up to other platforms due to Digital Markets Act: maybe we'll finally get FaceTime as an open industry standard at some point?
by wolpoli 3y ago
Speaking of opening up to other platforms due to Digital Markets Act: maybe we'll finally get FaceTime as an open industry standard at some point?
- tomjen3 3y agoThat would be an interesting chance: buy an iPhone and get it with the hardware, or download and app and pay Apple a subscription. I wonder how many Android users would be willing to pay the subscription?
- greedo 3y agoI thought Apple intended to do that but found out the a lot of the tech was patent-encumbered.
- MBCook 3y agoThe story is Steve Jobs just announced that without consulting any engineers first. It was a total surprise to them. They actually seemed to be working on it, but Apple was quickly hit with a patent suit from some company over FaceTime. I believe they had to re-architect how it worked to get around the patent. They haven’t done anything about it since then. I wonder if they simply can’t because of patents. Either way by now I think they’ve decided it’s a strategic advantage and they wouldn’t do it by choice.
- SSLy 3y agoAIUI FaceTime is already made from 3GPP and IETF standards, just apple holds the encryption keys and the auth servers.