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I think that feature is going to be a monster commercial success that every other phone immediately copies.
Will probably be the only point that we hear about on the local news / etc rather than Steve's consolidated 8-points . . .
The way they have made this video it looks as if they had come up with the definite cure to cancer, aids, etc ... I don't like it.
anybody else think its hilarious that this comment gets downvoted to oblivion?
"Company markets Product as if it is a Big Deal that people should Definitely Buy" is hardly an interesting or insightful observation.
Eh, requires Quicktime. Hooray for the Open Web. I'll just take your word that it's really shiny.
They seem to be using the video-tag: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/html5.png Don’t know what’s going on with QuickTime – maybe a fallback if your browser won’t play h.264? Does it work on Chrome without QuickTime? (– edit: Three people [who downvoted me] seem to think that formulating a reasonable hypothesis and asking reasonable questions because of conflicting information is already too much Apple love. Or maybe…
Eh, requires Quicktime. Hooray for the Open Web. I'll just take your word that it's really shiny.
They seem to be using the video-tag: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/html5.png Don’t know what’s going on with QuickTime – maybe a fallback if your browser won’t play h.264? Does it work on Chrome without QuickTime? (– edit: Three people [who downvoted me] seem to think that formulating a reasonable hypothesis and asking reasonable questions because of conflicting information is already too much Apple love. Or maybe…
edit: forgot the link [1] http://www.twotoasts.de/
I just walked into our office lunch room where a bunch of non-technical / non-gadget people were talking about the video conferencing capabilities of the new iphone . . . I think that feature is going to be a monster commercial success that every other phone immediately copies. Will probably be the only point that we hear about on the local news / etc rather than Steve's consolidated 8-points . . .
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anybody else think its hilarious that this comment gets downvoted to oblivion?
I was wondering the same. Perhaps it's because it's a very obvious statement? Apple routinely purport its products are perfect, that every detail is a facet of the best craftsmanship on Earth, use gaping-mouth words ("sooo perfect") and giggles of joy. Apple markets its products as technology beyond cutting-edge: they are superhuman, perhaps built by aliens and bestowed upon us mortals, things that change our lives a…
I just walked into our office lunch room where a bunch of non-technical / non-gadget people were talking about the video conferencing capabilities of the new iphone . . . I think that feature is going to be a monster commercial success that every other phone immediately copies. Will probably be the only point that we hear about on the local news / etc rather than Steve's consolidated 8-points . . .
Second, the first UMTS mobile i got had video conferencing, that's really a long time ago (Motorola V980 btw.) and many UMTS phones shipped with the second camera for years now. Yet, noone ever used it. Atleast i've never seen or heard of someone, although technically i could have done that with most people i know for years.
Is it that this feature was never available in the U.S.? Or why is this news over there?
Also, i've probably overread some feature that distinguishes it from the old UMTS way.
Non-quicktime video URL, anyone? heh, perhaps one in flash?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/07/apples-iphone-4-promo-vid...
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They did that back in 2004 when iChat AV was introduced, and AV didn't disrupt or shift habits away from traditional audio and text. I think video conferencing is a great feature no doubt, but it's largely too intrusive for most people. Certainly making it more accessible and standardized will help some however, even amongst the most savvy early adopters (and MM+ of college students with MacBooks), video chatting has…
Maybe not for most people. But there is a large segment of people (primarily younger than the readership of this site) who use iChat AV _all_ the time, and they wouldn't do so if they didn't all have Macs with iSight cameras and iChat AV. Old people are slow to change and sometimes never do. As we get old, we've got to remember that the failure of a product to change our ways of behaving is not proof that it will not…