Re: [Fed-Talk] IOS
Re: [Fed-Talk] IOS
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] IOS
- From: Joel Esler <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:34:12 -0400
On Jun 22, 2010, at 8:42 PM, Mueller, David S CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 55620 wrote:
> Count me among those who would love to see some sort of FaceTime - iChat integration, even though I'll likely be waiting until iPhone 5 since my 3GS contract doesn't expire until next year.
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> But having thought about it, I don't think we'll see it from Apple. To date, Apple has not provided any sort of iChat integration with the iPhone. However, AOL does via the AIM network and their iPhone AIM client, and it can also be done via Jabber/XMPP. So in my ideal would, AOL would add video chat capability to their iPhone AIM client, and it would be interoperable with both iChat and AOL's Windows AIM client.
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> Also, the current FaceTime concept of pushing the voice over a standard voice call wouldn't interoperate well with pure-data clients like iChat. Though I could see companies like Skype, which do interface with the PSTN, adding FaceTime to their desktop clients to allow FaceTime video calls between iPhone 4 and Skype desktop apps that would seem no different to iPhone users than making a FaceTime call to another iPhone.
I have a feeling that if Apple were to make iChat compatible with the iPhone, iChat would need to be re-written.
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Joel Esler
http://www.joelesler.net
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