Apple buys Facebook, integrates Facetime with it. Every FB user would have an iTunes account....
http://blogs.forbes.com/briancaulfield/2010/10/18/heres-a-thought-apple-could-buy-facebook/ On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com>wrote: > > 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:329505 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
