Oh please... -----Original Message----- From: Ras Tafari [mailto:rastaf...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:30 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Facetime for Mac...
you are forgetting that most of us tiny view mac worshippers started as -in your thinking- big view microshit worshippers. i drank the blue koolaid of windows for long enough... i decided to OPEN MY MIND that MAYBE there was something better out there... gave it a shot, and there's no single candle that a pc running windows has on a mbpro, there just isnt. i didnt grow up an apple fanboy, but ive grown up and now i am. and theres solid evidentiary reasons behind it. On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I see alot of people looking at this from a very small, personal, >> individualized, "I'm an Apple hater" point of view. > > We're not small picture Apple haters, we just don't understand you > tiny view Apple worshipers. > >> 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. > > That's the weird thing, iTunes has always sucked yet the lemmings > can't wait to overspend money on it. That's some powerful marketing. > >> 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. > > Waiting for the marching orders? > > You do have a point, they convinced millions to buy iPads so they can > google things while watching TV. I never would have thought I could > convince people to waste money on that. > >> 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. > > All video chat is pretty simple. Do people really use Apple TV? > >> 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. > > So they're telling us what to like and you're preac > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:329585 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
