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Let's be honest... Who really uses FaceTime?

I use it often to call my girlfriend, can obviously see each other that way as we don't currently live together and its hard to stay over due to my shifts at work.

Great feature and works well. Rather have that option and say not use it rather than want to be able to do it and it not be availiable.
 
OMG! I love Face Time. It became useful when a friend was purchasing a home and she wanted feedback. She used Face Time to pan all around the house. Or when your trying to fix something and need a friends help over the phone and can't describe the part - Face Time is your friend.

From what I understand, the soldiers in Afghan use Face Time to see their family and children grow up over the years.

Definitely, a useful feature.
 
I use it all of the time. The Grand Parents check in on my kids, my wife and I use to to talk with my kids when we travel. I love it, it's so simple that my 4 year old can pickup up an iPad or iPhone and just start talking to my parents.
 
If you're an over zealous iPhone enthusiast you'll say Face Time is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you use it all the time. The truth is that Face Time is a failed gimmick which virtually no one ever uses. Siri is pretty much in that same category.
 
I, too, use it on a daily basis.

Last night, I actually facetimed the grandparents so they could see my kids decorating the Christmas tree and show off the ornaments they made this year. We facetime with family like that 3-4 times a week.

I also use it to talk to my girlfriend, who lives in the UK. Between Skype and Facetime, the world seems like it's gotten a lot smaller.

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MassiveAttack said:
If you're an over zealous iPhone enthusiast you'll say Face Time is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you use it all the time. The truth is that Face Time is a failed gimmick which virtually no one ever uses. Siri is pretty much in that same category.
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Ummm, no.

Just because you may not be using it, doesn't mean that you can speak for the rest of the world. I think this thread proves quite the opposite.
 
Now that my brother has gotten an iPhone 4S we will be able to facetime alot more. For most people facetime is worthless to them. But if you have family in other states or nephew/nieces that live far facetime is really good to see how they've grown.
 
MassiveAttack said:
If you're an over zealous iPhone enthusiast you'll say Face Time is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you use it all the time. The truth is that Face Time is a failed gimmick which virtually no one ever uses. Siri is pretty much in that same category.
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Just because you don't use it does not = "no one uses it". As stated above I'm sure much like me anyone with kids would find it more than useful and I am far from an iPhone zealot.
 
Don't personally use it as I don't have any important relations that own an iPhone - I just use Skype. However, if I could, I'd use FaceTime over Skype.

That said, I do wish that FaceTime had a voice-only counterpart, it would introduce FaceTime simplicity to VoIP.
 
I used Facetime for a few weeks as i did with Siri, i rarely use either now.
Maybe Siri will become more useful when fully featured in the UK.

I tend to use Viber for VOIP calls as i'm generally happy with free Voice calls as opposed to Video.

Many love facetime though :)
 
Never use facetime, but I frequently (twice a week if not more) use skype video chat, so the FFC is valuable to me. Had Apple not created facetime we probably wouldn't have gotten a FFC so I am happy facetime exists.

On a side note, I think more people would use facetime if it was available natively over 3G.
 
MassiveAttack said:
If you're an over zealous iPhone enthusiast you'll say Face Time is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you use it all the time. The truth is that Face Time is a failed gimmick which virtually no one ever uses. Siri is pretty much in that same category.
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I'd like to see you tell my family this. I'm currently deployed and I was able to use face time to talk to them on Thanksgiving, my birthday and soon Christmas. I have used it every Saturday to call and spend time with my dad. Well it feels like I'm there in a weird way. More so than say skype because he can simply walk around and what not.
It may be a gimmick to you but it has helped me more than I could have hoped for.
 
I've never even turned it on! I hate to talk on the phone and can't imagine any reason I'd want to do chat via video.

Siri, however, I do use.
 
I've only used it about 3-4 times in the 15 months I've had my iPhone 4. Can't remember the last time I've used it. TBH, FaceTime is a bit of a gimmick to me, just how I also see Siri. They're not really going to be used a lot in the 'real' world in my opinion.
 
vitzr said:
Never even considered it. It's just another gadget for Apple to use as a marketing gimmick, like Siri.

Some people have no consideration for others, being typically rude. Nothing is more annoying than to have a vain Siri user talking to their iPhone loudly in the theatre or restaurant. It becomes noise pollution at that point.
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Gimmick?

You know what a gimmick is, right?


I bet you usually don't like helping people out or like to be social, because it's great for just that, without the need to go over to anyone when you don't have the time to do so.
Or just for the social thing about it, instead of a simple phone call you can interact in another way instead..
You know, the most talk we humans do is by gestures... and not the talk itself, so i think it's great.


Also it's great for calling for free, as it doesn't cost a dime.. And you can call anyone over the world, for free. I just did that with a friend who went to NY this week and he called me everyday when i was at home just to update on his vacation, which is neat imho.
 
EvilShenaniganZ said:
I'd like to see you tell my family this. I'm currently deployed and I was able to use face time to talk to them on Thanksgiving, my birthday and soon Christmas. I have used it every Saturday to call and spend time with my dad. Well it feels like I'm there in a weird way. More so than say skype because he can simply walk around and what not.
It may be a gimmick to you but it has helped me more than I could have hoped for.
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That's what this tech is for! :) I don;t follow about the skype comment. What keeps your dad from walking around with skype? :confused:
 
I Do!

I use it a lot on my iPhone 4S and my MacBook Pro (2011). I know, nobody really uses it, but keeps me connected with friends that live in different towns or states. Apple really needs to find a way to allow you to FaceTime without WiFi! :apple:
 
Skype is great too, by the way. I use Skype with those that don't have Apple. Skype and FaceTime just makes you be a part of the moment when someone is on vacation or when someone FaceTime's you at a party and scopes the room for you, which you couldn't attend like this Christmas Party last night. I really like the feature.
 
ninjaw95 said:
..you can
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Officially, you cannot. If you have a 4S, you cannot.

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iMacBookPro said:
Apple really needs to find a way to allow you to FaceTime without WiFi! :apple:
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I think there is wireless provider pressure, as well as the fact that Apple doesn't want "the experience" to be ruined by a shoddy, slow connection. There is a higher chance to have a slow cellular data connection than there is to have a slow wifi connection.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3)

Only ever used it once
 
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