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FaceTime next!
by vibbix 2y ago
FaceTime next!
- gorkish 2y agoOpen/Interoperable FaceTime, Announced by Steve Jobs on June 7, 2010. Never Forget
- rdsnsca 2y agoKilled by a lawsuit by a patent troll company, never forget.
- curtis3389 2y agoIf only Apple was big enough to fight the patent trolls...
- shmoe 2y agoIf only they hadn't fought the patent troll, and were denied the ability to bring a new suit when they lost.
- acdha 2y agoThey have - for over a decade. It took time to invalidate the patents and the damages: https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-wins-reversal-502-mln-virnetx-patent-infringement-verdict-2023-03-31/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-wins-reversal-502-mln-vi...
- viraptor 2y agoNot killed. Apple decided not to charge for non-Apple users and not to provide it for free either. They were only prevented from doing P2P connections, not from opening the protocol. Or maybe it could've even been federated... not that Apple likes to play nice with anyone else. Which is funny given that WhatsApp started as a very popular paid service. They could've been that for iMessage and extended it to calls.
- madeofpalk 2y agoThis gets repeated a lot, and might be true (apparently the patent lawsuit forced Apple to change the implementation to be less peer-to-peer?), but lore says that Steve Jobs announcing Facetime as an open standard was a surprise to everyone working on Facetime.
- gorkish 2y agoProve it
- 1-more 2y agoYou can start facetime calls from an Apple device to anyone by sending a link that works in their browser. No it's not 100% of the functionality, but it's a lot of it.
- gorkish 2y agoNo, it's not.