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Apple's $0.99 FaceTime Charge Due to Accounting Requirements
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Not to go off on a personal rant but I personally haven't found FaceTime worth the price that they're charging. Not that it's overpriced, but if it's anything like the beta I've used, that app has a long way to go. IMO, Skype does such a better job at the whole video calls thing for mobile devices and other laptops. That's just me though.
I've read most of the threads in this post and I still don't get people complaining about a 99 cent charge for FaceTime. Seriously?
If it wasn't released as a public beta (aren't all betas free?) then everyone would be saying what an awesome piece of software this is for just $1.
If you don't want it, don't buy it.
If you don't want it, don't buy it.
Show me how/where/when they lied.
I assume that's an official CPA term. I also assume you will be attaching a scan or photo of your CPA certification to back up your knowledge of accounting. Or your IRS credentials. JPEG will be fine.
It's a fricking dollar. If it's gouging, it's the IT industry's smallest, most feeble gouge ever.
99¢ isn't too bad. What I don't get is why does Apple have to charge for it? Can someone explain SarOx & the other accounting principles to me? And just so you know, when it comes to accounting, I make laymen look like Einsteins.
Apple's $0.99 FaceTime Charge Due to Accounting Requirements
Whose requirements? Apple's? So Apple is being force by Apple to charge for it?
.99 isn't very much...
Nice to see you ignore the rest of my original post. Steve stood on stage and claimed they would no longer have to charge for things like this.
The cost is not the issue. It's Apple's blatant lying. But as with most on here. you obviously think Apple can do no wrong.
Given Steve lied on stage about Facetime being an open standard that would be submitted to standards bodies in the first place during it's announcement?
Yes.
Again, Apple are either lying here or they were lying at the iOS4 launch event. The answers they are giving are mutually exclusive.
Phazer
The changes allowed Apple to account for the revenue for iPod touches differently in order to provide free updates. I think they had to hold out a limited amount of revenue from the sale of each iPod touch for future quarters. Obviously, Apple did not make the same changes to the way they accounted for Macs or OS X or whatever product they consider Facetime as adding functionality to.
It's silly to think of this claim as a lie, because what is the point? Apple could have just said that they chose to charge for it and nobody would care.
I don't know many people with iPhones so I don't really mind. If someone from my family/friends would have one, I would buy it, it costs almost nothing. I waste that amount of money daily when I buy an extra tomato that I end up not eating, or when I get two slices of bread that go mouldy because I didn't eat them in time.
You genuinely don't get the difference between a product and its underlying protocols? Facetime (the app) cannot be a "standard", any more than Windows is a standard. Of course they can submit Facetime's technology as a standard. The Facetime app is their implementation of said technology. And other vendors can make Facetime-compatible apps that are NOT called Facetime.
will facetime take the place of ichat?
I wonder if facetime will be on the next server version for services
and ichat and ichat services on sever versions will disappear?
I woud love to see this happening and people using facetime on iphones,ipads and desktops for secure chat, and video conferencing.
I wonder if facetime will be on the next server version for services
and ichat and ichat services on sever versions will disappear?
I woud love to see this happening and people using facetime on iphones,ipads and desktops for secure chat, and video conferencing.
So it's Apple that set the rule of $0.99 minimum? They could make a new rule: "When forced to charge a fee to keep accountants happy, the fee shall be $.01."
People are seriously throwing a tantrum over $0.99?
Grow up, kiddos. Get a job or wait for Lion.
It probably won't break the bank then.
Of course, the cost of Lion... who-whee!
Grow up, kiddos. Get a job or wait for Lion.
It probably won't break the bank then.
Of course, the cost of Lion... who-whee!
This is MacRumors. You're positively encouraged to have strong opinions on things you have no knowledge of whatsoever.
He actually said it was based on a variety of open standards and would be submitted to standards bodies.
Which part is a lie? Or are you just claiming that you can't charge for an open standard?
No, they aren't mutually exclusive.
Yes, but my point is that Apple said they would submit those protocols and technologies to standards bodies and then never did so.
Other vendors CANNOT make Facetime compatible apps, because Apple never actually did the submission. They just lied.
Phazer
Does this mean the beta will no longer function? I'll wait for Lion before I'll pay for what-should-be-for-free app. I don't it often so if the beta will still work, I'll just use that.
1.0 JUST came out. Remember? You were ranting on about it on the forums? The fricking day isn't even over yet and you're ready to hang them. Besides, how do you know they haven't submitted them? You don't. The standards process is long and boring. How long did it take H2.64 to be ratified as a standard? Years? That's not Apple's fault.
Dear Complainers,
1) It's 99 cents. You paid at least $1000 for your computer. That's 0.099% of the initial cost or less.
2) If you're really going to bitch about 99 cents, don't buy it. Simple as that. Apple isn't making you buy anything.
Is it really that complicated?
1) It's 99 cents. You paid at least $1000 for your computer. That's 0.099% of the initial cost or less.
2) If you're really going to bitch about 99 cents, don't buy it. Simple as that. Apple isn't making you buy anything.
Is it really that complicated?