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Skype?

The introduction of Facetime was the turning point for being ambivalent to Apple management to downright hating them.

The point of videochat isn't to lock you in to any one platform is it? Mac desk- and laptops come free with iChat, great videochatting, can even vid to AOL users.

Facetime comes along and now videochat is only between iPhone owners - not even to your home running iChat. Facetime is now a Mac app - for pay. Not doing a thing that iChat wasn't doing for free.

I want to vid from my desk, then be able to tell clients - hey, I'll check in the lab for you - then xfer the session to my phone and be good to go.

I want it to be platform independent so if someone says to me, how do I do that? I send them a link and they just install it on whatever and it just works.

The way Skype used to be before they decided that cell phones were somehow different. On wifi. Where people just carry their laptops around.

(Insert mad junkyard dog growling here...)

So, yeap - Qik and others work... but not universal enough for my personal needs.
 
EarlyMon said:
The introduction of Facetime was the turning point for being ambivalent to Apple management to downright hating them.

The point of videochat isn't to lock you in to any one platform is it? Mac desk- and laptops come free with iChat, great videochatting, can even vid to AOL users.

Facetime comes along and now videochat is only between iPhone owners - not even to your home running iChat. Facetime is now a Mac app - for pay. Not doing a thing that iChat wasn't doing for free.

I want to vid from my desk, then be able to tell clients - hey, I'll check in the lab for you - then xfer the session to my phone and be good to go.

I want it to be platform independent so if someone says to me, how do I do that? I send them a link and they just install it on whatever and it just works.

The way Skype used to be before they decided that cell phones were somehow different. On wifi. Where people just carry their laptops around.

(Insert mad junkyard dog growling here...)

So, yeap - Qik and others work... but not universal enough for my personal needs.
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Agreed 100%. I wonder what is so difficult about making universal video chat programs/apps. Most of the multi-service IM programs don't support video, and the same happens on the phone. I tried Fring thinking I could video chat with my AIM contacts... no go. I originally thought that Qik might chat to other IM clients, but that didn't work out (didn't know anyone else with the Evo that I wanted to look at, and broadcasting to a website seemed incredibly NOT private and not phone friendly). I like that the Yahoo app (mentioned above) will do it, but I stopped using Yahoo IM in high school :-p

Do they just put these front facing cameras on our phones to tease us, or what?
 
I read an article today claiming that Skype handed the land telcos their heads with cheap calling - and that cell carriers are terrified of this history repeating itself with them.

Dunno. But it's not if, it's when that support becomes ubiquitous, imo.
 
With all the advancements I'm sometimes honestly surprised that we are still using "Minutes" & monitoring how many Texts are sent on plans. I can't believe it's not just all boiled down to how much data you use.
 
Exactly what I like about Sprints $100/month (+all the add-ons= like $130) monthly plan.

It is what it is and never a need to think about usage of any kind within the US.
 
We barely talk on our phones so we have FOUR lines on one 1500 minutes family plan for $170 a month :eek:

Especially nice with Data. I can just use all I want and never have to worry about it. I have a 3G phone right now and no 4G in my area. But if I had to pick unlimited Data with 3G or limited Data with 4G I'd pick the unlimited/3G every time.
 
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