The 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,

The 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.