FaceTime and the iPod Touch
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FaceTime and the iPod Touch
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#3Why is every DF post ending up here on HN? For comments perhaps?
Google / Google Voice / Gizmo5 or any SIP provider offers data calls. I've been messing around with this on my iPad and it's very close to being viable. There's no question it is on Android.
I hope Apple keeps moving in this direction but I doubt they'll be the first to route around the carriers. Right now all signs point to Apple being happily engaged to AT&T.
Re: FaceTime and the iPod Touch
#4Why is every DF post ending up here on HN? For comments perhaps? Google / Google Voice / Gizmo5 or any SIP provider offers data calls. I've been messing around with this on my iPad and it's very close to being viable. There's no question it is on Android. I hope Apple keeps moving in this direction but I doubt they'll be the first to route around the carriers. Right now all signs point to Apple being happily engaged…
Internationally Apple works with dozens of carriers, frequently more than one in a territory. This is still the company whose CEO referred to carriers as "orifices" not so long ago. They're going to keep putting a brave face on the AT&T relationship right up until the morning when they announce an alternative.
Re: FaceTime and the iPod Touch
#5Why is every DF post ending up here on HN? For comments perhaps? Google / Google Voice / Gizmo5 or any SIP provider offers data calls. I've been messing around with this on my iPad and it's very close to being viable. There's no question it is on Android. I hope Apple keeps moving in this direction but I doubt they'll be the first to route around the carriers. Right now all signs point to Apple being happily engaged…
Right now all signs point to Apple being happily engaged to AT&T.
Sure, but they were also happily engaged to the PowerPC chip while they had the Intel-compatible OS X waiting in the wings. It would behoove Apple to have a strategy for routing around the carriers at such time that a relationship with said carriers is no longer advantageous to them.
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#6If this prediction holds, Apple could add an awful lot of value to MobileMe by providing a sort of answering machine service to subscribers.
I'm close to wireless for most of the day, but when I'm not it would be nice to have FaceTime callers that couldn't reach me leave a video message that got delivered via email.
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#7To make the end-run complete, Apple would have to convince carriers to treat text messages (IMs basically) as data instead of SMS.
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#8Why is every DF post ending up here on HN? For comments perhaps? Google / Google Voice / Gizmo5 or any SIP provider offers data calls. I've been messing around with this on my iPad and it's very close to being viable. There's no question it is on Android. I hope Apple keeps moving in this direction but I doubt they'll be the first to route around the carriers. Right now all signs point to Apple being happily engaged…
Internationally Apple works with dozens of carriers, frequently more than one in a territory. This is still the company whose CEO referred to carriers as "orifices" not so long ago. They're going to keep putting a brave face on the AT&T relationship right up until the morning when they announce an alternative.
Yeah I bet you're right.
We all just have to suck it up now with AT&T but nobody is happy with the status quo.
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#9I don't see why Apple are making the effort. It looks like they won't be making any money from FaceTime directly, so then it's just a nice feature to help sell more Apple kit. Why not save a lot of development and infrastructure cost by pre-installing a (custom) Skype?
(I realise that that doesn't make it exclusive to Apple, but I don't see Apple beating the network effects that Skype has working for them, either)
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#10This answers my question, Why doesn't Apple or Google just buy a carrier? Because they intend to put them out of business.