now that I think about it, that really was seamless. I added Cameron's email address to my contact list. Then went back to face time. Clicked his name and it called him at his desk. Really, it can't get much easier than that.
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:329581 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
