Are Apple missing a trick with Facetime?

[chandler99]

Just a random thought of the day, but if ipods will be able to use facetime, are apple missing a trick in not utilising the camera in mac's to also be able to make facetime calls.. maybe through iChat or a new app?

 

[Shreknow91]

no, it just gives them something else to unveil in a year or two and make it seem like the best thing since sliced bread...

 

[R94N]

No, I think too much stuff at once can be difficult and make the Keynote longer

This would be a good feature that I can see coming sooner or later.

As to the comment above, surely every commercial product is marketed to make it look good? Apple just does it really well, I guess.

P.S. I love random thoughts of the day! Keep them coming

 

[pamon]

facetime will probably come to the macbook and imac's before long. they're focusing too hard on their mobile money now

 

[Don't panic]

i would imagine that if you are an iPhone/iPad developer you can probably already use FaceTime on the macs.
likely just a hack away to become universal. but i agree, they should release it for the macs soon especially if they allow mac to iphone chat.
hopefully when they do it will apply to all macs with a camera.

 

[wackymacky]

I can't imagine that Apple would continue to develop iChat and FaceTime simultaneously, so of course they will become the same.

Perhaps at the next 10.x release.

 

[djellison]

To be even slightly useful, it needs to work on PC as well - thus iChat is out.

 

[Bernard SG]

Facetime being based on open standards, is it possible for any Mac developer to code a Facetime client for Mac (and/or PC) by now?
If yes then someone could make some nice bucks until Apple wakes up and releases something.