Facetime... 18 months later

[808?]

where's the never option?

Exactly.

 

[acfusion29]

Isn't less than once considered never?

no.

this is all based on assumption that the OP wants an average over the 18 months. so if you used facetime 1 time in 18 months, you are in another category than someone who used it 0 times in 18 months.

make sense?

 

[Matthew9559]

Never, I have used it twice ever.

It's cool just have no use for it.

 

[LapsangSouchong]

I work with a colleague in another country. We had been using skype. Then his work internet got kinda...sucky. So we switched to facetime, hoping it could handle it. It did. Like a champ. Now our weekly meetings are on facetime.
I use it more now, in fact, than I did when it first came out. Several times a week, at least.

 

[F123D]

Use it a couple times a month. Now that I'm a jailbroken, can facetime over 3G while I'm out and about as well.

 

[cambookpro]

I usually use it 1-2 times a week to talk to my parents. Just wished you could do it over 3G, though.

 

[mariotr87]

I usually use it 1-2 times a week to talk to my parents. Just wished you could do it over 3G, though.

You can if you jailbreak.

I use it everyday, at least once.

 

[rikscha]

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Would use it if it was working. It is far too unstable.

 

[Macman45]

I use it daily. FInd it an invaluable tool, despite the bugs.

 

[lordofthereef]

Facetime, never. Skype video chat, weekly. Without facetime I doubt we would have a FFC, so I sort of feel they are one in the same.

 

[bmacir]

I voted a couple of times a month, but I use it a little more than that but definitely not twice a week.

Probably 70% of calling time was thanks to Facebreak.

 

[emjaycee18]

Never used it, until I had my daughter. Now there are weekly FaceTime chats with the grandparents.

 

[The Phazer]

Never used it. Lack of cross platform clients made it useless.

Phazer

 

[ReallyBigFeet]

I posted this in another thread, but I think it bears a reprint.

My son is 7 and has an iPod Touch. His grandparents live 4 states away and they have an iPad. Prior to this setup, they spoke on the phone regularly but it was an "event" thing. He'd call them once a week or they'd call him and they'd just chat. Normal stuff, he'd answer a few questions, ask a few, that was it.

With Facetime, especially with his own iPod Touch, he's Facetiming the granparents several times per day. Visual communications seems to be so much more enriching to him. He'll call them to show them something he's drawn, a grade he made on a test at school, a little-boy craft project, whatever. Its went from the weekly calls to nan and pop to a daily show-and-tell.

Sure he could have been doing this via Skype or any number of other video conferencing solutions. But with an iPod Touch and an iPad, its finger press and then they are visually (and emotionally) connected. That empowerment factor for these parties (neither of whom are technical) is the 'magic' of Facetime for me. Its not that Apple gave us something revolutionary....they just gave us something that is simple to use.

Its still got bugs....we get drops all the time. But even with warts, I've found a 'killer app' with Facetime. YMMV of course.

 

[Shrink]

Never even turned it on, on any of my Apple toys.

Yes, but in your case it's because you don't want anybody to know what you are really doing...some sort of unmentionable multi-tasking.

I use FaceTime daily my MBP, but never on my phone.

 

[djransom]

My sister likes to FaceTime my daughter/her niece once or twice a week. Outside of that I don't really use it much unless I need to hit up my wife. Tango is decent video calling app that works over 3G as well.

 

[silen7scope]

I usually ft my wife while at the grocery store and I forget what I'm getting.. or what type formula we need.. lol or when I'm talking to someone and I want to show them what I'm seeing and talk about it without taking & sending sms which seems like an extra step by then.

Comes in handy & works for me in practical situations.

 

[macbookman83]

I use it nightly, now, because my girlfriend lives a little ways away so we don't see each other every night.

I am really upset, however, that it's required for me to be on a wi-fi network in order to use it since I have unlimited data.

Jailbreak your device and use 3g unrestrictor and you can Facetime with your girlfriend anywhere.

 

[eric/]

Jailbreak your device and use 3g unrestrictor and you can Facetime with your girlfriend anywhere.

It's just, well when I think of Apple and I think of the future and possibilities of FaceTime. I don't imagine having to be restricted to my home to use it natively. I imagine walking around and calling up somebody to voice chat whenever I want.

I don't really feel like jail breaking my phone though, so I suppose for now I'll just deal with it and hope that one day Apple will wise up.

 

[negro napoleon]

I wish apple would combine iMessage, iChat, and FaceTime into one so it could just be the Mac Message Center

 

[NikeTalk]

Since my iPhone 4 is jailbroken I use it quite a lot. I actually kinda like it. It's neat to talk to family in other parts of the country and the children when you're away from home.

 

[dsquared81]

I never use it. Only when I first got my 4 I'd check it out but ever since I never use it.

 

[SuperSnake2012]

I use FaceTime, but more so on my MacBook. I've never used it on my iPhone.

 

[kicko]

i never use it because rarely do i have myself and another person connected to wifi at the same time. much easier to use Skype or any other video chat app that does allow 3g

 

[iceterminal]

I use it almost every day.
Unlike most of the younger generation, I'm not afraid to speak to someone face to face nor do I feel a need to hide and be a keyboard cowboy.
Now get off my lawn.