iPod touch Apple's FaceTime number

[applealex]

Is Apple going to launch an iPod touch version of their 1-888-FACETIME thing?

I don't really get how it would work since it'd be only one email and one representative for all iPod touch users but I wonder if they'd do it

 

[Warbitrary]

Content removed. I misunderstood your question.

 

[tablo13]

It doesn't work anymore.

 

[ouimetnick]

That is interesting. I'm not sure why you couldn't just dial a phone number on the touch, and it would do FaceTime only. That would work. But they chose to use Email addresses instead.

 

[NathanA]

Is Apple going to launch an iPod touch version of their 1-888-FACETIME thing?

Can the iPod Touch not place a FaceTime "call" to a phone number? If it can't, doesn't that mean that iPhone users would have to register an e-mail address with Apple to receive FaceTime calls from iPod Touch users? That seems rather silly, if true.

I get that the Touch does not have a phone number and so iPhones would have to use an e-mail address to initiate a call to a Touch. But I don't get what technical barrier is in place that would prevent a FaceTime call from being initiated from a Touch to an iPhone via phone number (the phone number, just like an e-mail address, is simply an alias mapped to a specific FaceTime device; it's an arbitrary string of characters).

-- Nathan

 

[ryan0402]

I bet it was turned into chat roulette and the employees got sick and tired of it

 

[skiltrip]

A touch can FaceTime call an iPhone via it's phone number. I do it all the tome with a friend of mine.

 

[NathanA]

A touch can FaceTime call an iPhone via it's phone number. I do it all the tome with a friend of mine.

Thanks. Good to have that confirmed.

-- Nathan