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I have pretty much dismissed instagram up till now, but I can start to see its usefulness since twitter is really cracking down with their APIs and such. Perhaps I can do more with instagram, or have a way to add more to twitter.

Of course iOS will likely see this first...

Or perhaps I may just need to dig into google + more :)
 
treb1797 said:
Afternoon my dear ;)

Good to see ya around these parts :thumb:
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Missed the fun banter in here. It's been really busy at the salon and home has been crazy!

Bearsyzf said:
Mornen BB :hello:
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Afternoon!
jmar said:
Morning y'all.

You guys sure know how to bring the RED to the thread. :banghead::banghead::banghead::D:D
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treb1797 said:
Of course we do, this is the S3 Watering Hole for goodness sake. I think our reputation speaks for itself :D
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But, but, but....I'm friendly *sniff*
 
treb1797 said:
Too friendly some say :p
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What? The is no such thing as "to friendly"! Unless your a 89 bald head no teeth having guy, who lurks around the woman's dressing room saying hi to everyone and inviting them to see his tinted windows van... now that's too friendly Treb! Let's not confuse the 2
 
kymberlin said:
That was my conclusion. I thought maybe that is the only thing apple actually got right ? Kinda like BBM, no one can quite duplicate it perfectly. JUst my thoughts though. Since I am no EMon... :D
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Apple raised the bar in video chatting with iChat A/V for the Mac in the early 2000s - it was far better than professional services we were paying for.

They implemented superior codecs (code/decode=codec - the way vidio and pictures are made - you've heard of jpeg, mp4, wav files - think codecs) - anyway, they implemented superior videochat codecs.

And ran on an open network - AOL's actually - so it was easy to connect to Apple with non-Apple, you just got better service with Apple-to-Apple.

Then, everyone started stepping up their game to keep up.

Life was good.

Then video chat hit Android and the backroom deals started hitting everywhere - at Apple, at Verizon, at Microsoft, at Google.

Apple was of the opinion that videochat on the iPhone 4 would be their ultimate bragging rights for another big first.

Unfortunately for them, the HTC Evo hit a month earlier with that feature - and it worked on 3G - and quite well. The iPhone would only work on wifi.

When the blogosphere started running stories on how you could have a friends Android tether wifi for your iPhone so you could use videochat - unless your friend had the Evo Android, then just use their phone - Steve Jobs and company all but came unglued.

They first tried to secretly change internet port numbers to make iChat only Apple-to-Apple. Thanks to blogs and forums, the fix for that got out.

And remember - iChat was all free.

Apple finally countered by reducing the feature set of their previous offering, employing private protocols that only they could get - and called it Facetime.

The first 2 betas didn't work at all and the first release was atrocious - they were sorting out lock-down for their iDevices. I know because I had it.

By the second version of Factime they released their new surprise - went from free to a paid app. In the third version, it seemed to start working. (Going by memory on the version history there - not worth my time to look up and verify, but I'm well-sure I'm close.)

Meanwhile - some services sprang up to get videochat working on Android - Tango was an early one, there were many others.

Among them was ooVoo - who when the iPad came out, decided that their mission was to out-Facetime Facetime while keeping Android compatibility.

Might work, might not.

This all gets device dependent in a hurry, so it still may not go for you.

But it's worth a shot.

Bottom line on Apple's video chat history:

Apple iChat - new, was actually magical, worked great, free, no one heard of it.

Apple Facetime - not new, not magical, works great, costs money ($1 on a Mac) now that everyone's heard of it.
 
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