Apple Saw Record Number of FaceTime Calls On Christmas

[Sasparilla]

When Steve Jobs introduced Face Time he said that they were working on a Windows/Android version as well. If they had actually released one I think Skype and Team Meetings and Zoom would all have a smaller market share just because Face Time would have had an instant market and a reason for Android and Windows users to select them instead. I don't know why Apple didn't release those versions. They were probably other software companies back then but none with the instant market that Apple had even 10 years ago. Now my family uses Zoom because of the number of Android and Windows users that can't use Face Time.

Guessing Apple looked at how things were (got sued by VirnetX, started and run at the time by former NSA employees) for a software patent that prevented Facetime from being direct phone to phone and VirnetX would not take money to allow Apple to use this type of connection for Facetime, Apple had to switch to a phone to server to phone model) and the constant harrassing from the govt directly about encryption and figured if they'd roll out the Android version (so they'd be the no 1 encrypted chat / video service), it would not be worth it. JMHO.

 

[gaximus]

When Steve Jobs introduced Face Time he said that they were working on a Windows/Android version as well. If they had actually released one I think Skype and Team Meetings and Zoom would all have a smaller market share just because Face Time would have had an instant market and a reason for Android and Windows users to select them instead. I don't know why Apple didn't release those versions. They were probably other software companies back then but none with the instant market that Apple had even 10 years ago. Now my family uses Zoom because of the number of Android and Windows users that can't use Face Time.

When they first introduced it, it was using a p2p protocol and they were going to make it an open standard. This meant that the phones could connect to each other directly. Then some company sued saying they owned a patented that was too similar, so Apple had to change the protocol so that a the calls where connected through a server, and they’re not going to let android users calling android users to use their servers for free. So that’s why it never became an open standard.

 

[Minxy]

In parts of America (and some other dialects) on Christmas is used to mean on Chistmas day.

I didn’t know, thank you.