On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Sisk, Kris <ks...@gckschools.com> wrote:
> Um....it's video chat...It's nothing new. My family's been doing it with > their laptops and MSN Messenger for years. The only difference here is > that one end is a cell phone, which is kinda meh in my opinion, > especially since there are MSN and Skype clients for phones already. > Apple's catching up with stuff that's already out there so I don't think > we should be asking when the world's gonna catch up with them. > I see alot of people looking at this from a very small, personal, individualized, "I'm an Apple hater" point of view. As far as existing video chat software, you could say the same about iTunes. There are other MP3 players out there. Before the iPod there were others, there remain others - but Apple has a HUGE share now. You can bash them all you want and they will laugh all the way to the bank. >From a strategic point of view, consider this... Apple didn't bundle Facetime with iChat, or with iTunes. It's an independent app they are developing as a standalone mac app. Now, I may be totally wrong about why, but it seems that this decoupling makes it MUCH easier to port that one little app over to N number of platforms without having to drag along iTunes, iChat, and the rest. So... Yes, there are other video clients out there. In fact iChat has had video conferencing for a number of years (since 2002/2003?). BUT.... When Apple puts it's marketing machine behind an idea, whether it be cell phones, music players, tablets, of just a laptop, that old thing is suddenly new again. I think Apple is positioned perfectly to drop Facetime onto a number of platforms, make it (seem) "easier to use", and give their special spin on it, and completely disrupt what you see as a mature and stable existing video chat market. This about Facetime on Apple TV, for example. Facetime on the iPhone and Mac is the tip of the sword that they could shove deep into the market within the next 12 months if they want to. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329500 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
