btw, nice to meet you Cameron ;)
On Oct 21, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Facetime for MAC = Apple Video Conferencing tool. >> >> We've already had it for years in the form of Skype and several other >> similar applications. > > I'm not sure this is true, really. You can open the desktop version > of Facetime, open your contact list, and "call" an existing, plain > jane iPhone phone number using Facetime. This calls my iPhone using > Facetime, not using the phone network - but with the same AT&T phone > number I have always had. > > I have used Skype a little bit, but not as a regular phone. I know > you can get a Skype number, and I'm guessing you can forward calls to > any phone from that phone number. But it's pretty slick that you can > use your existing contact list to call iPhones using Facetime. I > didn't configure anything. I didn't download anything on my phone. > "It just works". > > This is the sort of seamless integration that will help Apple beat > companies like Skype one day - if that's the direction they even plan > to go with this (which I suspect to be the case). > > -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:329579 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
