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FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web

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Re: FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web

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Wow. That is unexpected. I have to say that FaceTime in a browser sandbox is one of the few Apple products I would consider using. I wonder what made them take this path? I also wonder if someone could build a Matrix bridge if it is available via web, that would be fairly cool. Some questions: - Is it phone-number based IDs? Or can I pick a username or get a random ID? - Is spam going to be a problem? Previous Apple…

> I wonder what made them take this path? it was literally an email that surface on the Epic store litigation, where one Apple exec says (quote from memory) "We can't have facetime for android because that will remove the barrier for families to buy Android phones for their kids" So it will be crappy and have TONS of limitations (wouldn't be surprised it it only work with one apple device hosting) because it is only…

Facetime already has a lot of limitations . While I do love it, it's very data heavy - have you ever looked at how much data it consumes? Also, it's a fn batteryand heat hog. It freaking makes all my phones hot and uses tons of power.

You can't easily record a call (unless I am unaware) it's hard to take screenshots, and you can't take a shot of just the other party, it always will have your personal view in a corner.

The call logs suck.

And obviously the walked garden.

I'm typing this on android, but I also have an iPhone on me that's wifi only such that I can facetime and imessages.

However imessage is broken as well: I can text people but some people can't text me back.

I also have a google voice account and somehow these three platforms have confused the system, as messages constantly get lost ,,,

Re: FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web

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Let's hope that FaceTime will work on Firefox too.

It won’t: https://i.redd.it/w4z12et4mx371.jpg . Presumably this is “courage”? There’s an open webcompat issue: https://webcompat.com/issues/76499

Looks like they’re using feature detection and Firefox is missing that feature

https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/76550#issuecomm...

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