Is Apple trying to claim it invented video calling?
Summary: Here's an aspect of Apple that annoys me - trying to claim it invented something that's clearly been around for years.
Here's an aspect of Apple that annoys me - trying to claim it invented something that's clearly been around for years.
What's worse is when normally sensible tech pundits seem too suffer collective amnesia and go along with the deception.
Take video calling, or FaceTime as Apple is calling it. Watch this video, and pay attention to how the company describes the FaceTime feature:
OK, it seems easy to use, and being able to flip between the front and rear camera is nice, but video calling isn't new. Heck, my Nokia E71 can do a video call ... in two clicks ... to any other video-enabled handset ... over 3G ...
Get my drift? What Apple is doing here is rewriting history. And what's especially annoying is that a year from now people will associate video calling with Apple and the iPhone 4, think it's something new and something that wasn't available to anyone before.
This is what big bucks ad money buys a company like Apple - the chance to rewrite history. Second best thing to having an iTimeMachine!
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phone to phone video calling is only possible if..
"Millions of People do video calls..." Just as AT&T...
this thing came out yesterday.. i think it's called WiFi? LOL..
How about, you won't?
RE: How about, you wont?
RE: Is Apple trying to claim it invented video calling?
Video calling's been available for a while, even in Nigeria where i live, it's the costs that are restrictive not the phones, considering that my recently lost Sony-Ericsson K800i had a front facing camera (and that's no smartphone).
This just reminds me of claims made recently by some Apple fans that Apple invented the smartphone!
As for making video calls over wifi, I wonder how that will affect your data plans at home?!
Spot on!
as much as I hate it
Not only did they not invent it, they didn't even make up the name!
see: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/IOS-iPhone-4-iPad-iPod-touch,news-6997.html
They bought the iOS name from Cisco and bought the Facetime name from another company.
Their track record...
"... they didn't even make up the name!"
That is a bunch of boloney
RE: Is Apple trying to claim it invented video calling?
It's like saying "Windows 7was my idea!" ha, ha
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For The Common Good!
Funny, that's what Hitler did with the Jewish question.
No thanks for unitary top down solutions.
RE: Is Apple trying to claim it invented video calling?
Just how are they making it 'user friendly enough for the world to accept' ? How much easier does it get than having a dial button for making a video phone call, just like making a normal voice call ? I don't know what gizmos you've been trying to use, but that's how easy it was using my Nokia. The other person just needs to have a phone that supports it - and most newish phones do (not just Nokias). As far as I'm aware the feature is quite widely used here in the UK (and in Ethiopia I noticed someone said).
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I do this via MSN Messenger all the time and I am not limited to an iPhone.
Lame.
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