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It's a pity Apple didn't opensource or at release for other platforms Facetime and iMesssages. Both are really very well integrated Audio/Video/Texting apps tha
by ulfw 13y ago
It's a pity Apple didn't opensource or at release for other platforms Facetime and iMesssages. Both are really very well integrated Audio/Video/Texting apps that work and look better than a third-party tool like Whatsapp
- k-mcgrady 13y agoAt the announcement Jobs said the FaceTime protocol would be released but it never was. I love FaceTime but locking it down to just iOS/Mac makes it so much less useful. I can understand why they want to use it to sell more iPhones but I wish they'd at least add a web or Windows client. It wouldn't hurt iPhone sales, probably wouldn't effect Mac sales, and so many more people could use FaceTime.
- justinsb 13y agoIf I was responsible for this decision at Apple, I would definitely be much more open to doing this now (post-WhatsApp). I'd hope Google and Apple are at least trying to get first-class interoperability between iOS / Android. Maybe only for text and not voice/video, but otherwise Facebook / WhatsApp wins the space.
- ubercow13 13y agoI disagree, iMessage is much slower on poor network connections (and fast ones) for me than WhatsApp, and it is certainly much less reliable. It will fail consistently unless I have 3G coverage, where WhatsApp works fine on a GPRS signal. The only advantage it has for me is the ability to send larger size pictures.