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It's only iphone 4 to iphone 4 so it's basically useless most of the time.
Jobs: "we’re going to make FaceTime an open industry standard." Should be interesting.
The FaceTime thing is epic. That said, it just gets more and more dangerous to go out and get hammered and start drunk-dialing people . . . The number of post-bender apologies that I usually have to make will probably go up by at least 50%.
It's only iphone 4 to iphone 4 so it's basically useless most of the time.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's only iphone 4 to iphone 4 so it's basically useless most of the time.
Jobs: "we’re going to make FaceTime an open industry standard." Should be interesting.
Of course, we'll see what they mean by "open standard" after the recent debacle with Safari's "HTML5 Demo", but I'd like to remain optimistic. Webkit was a nice gift, and hopefully this will be something similar.
The FaceTime thing is epic. That said, it just gets more and more dangerous to go out and get hammered and start drunk-dialing people . . . The number of post-bender apologies that I usually have to make will probably go up by at least 50%.
I'd guess the GAAP changes Apple lobbied for [1] made the difference.
[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/09/accounting-rules-c...
Video chat. It's been available in asia for ~5 years? yet no one uses it. Will it be different in North America?
The FaceTime thing is epic. That said, it just gets more and more dangerous to go out and get hammered and start drunk-dialing people . . . The number of post-bender apologies that I usually have to make will probably go up by at least 50%.
The N900 has skype and google talk video calling already, and people don't call that epic. It also works on 3G, unlike the iphone.
The FaceTime thing is epic. That said, it just gets more and more dangerous to go out and get hammered and start drunk-dialing people . . . The number of post-bender apologies that I usually have to make will probably go up by at least 50%.
The N900 has skype and google talk video calling already, and people don't call that epic. It also works on 3G, unlike the iphone.
The reason it is epic is because this is the first time it'll actually work. Who cares about N900s? Does my grandma know what an N900 is?
no iPod touch update? I was hoping they will at least have a camera in the iPod touch added.
Video chat. It's been available in asia for ~5 years? yet no one uses it. Will it be different in North America?
Smart phones were available in the US for ages before the iPhone, yet Jobs' and Apple's star power helped them to become more widespread. The whole "reality distortion field" can be used for good if it's to help spread adoption of interesting technologies, imo. I think the fact that it's coming from Apple will help adoption, even if the implementation is the same or even worse.
Actually since these phones were around before youtube and real mobile browsing, the main marketed reason to get a 3G phone originally was video chat.