I actually quite like video conferencing to communicate with family
across the globe (I'm German, my wife is Australian). I've done job
interviews on Skype, too. But I wouldn't use it on a regular basis,
particularly not in a work context.
But as far as I can see a large part of the iPhone market is hip young
teens (or whatever they are referred to nowadays). I can certainly see
them pick up the feature.
In a way it seems similar to the idea of mobile browsing, which had been
around for a long time before the iPhone did it. But not only was the
browser better on the iPhone, it also came with plans that included
data. While I don't see the same extreme change happening in the market
(since video telephony doesn't seem as useful), I could see Apple
causing a bit of a shift in the market again.
Peter
On 16/06/10 04:00, Robert Casto wrote:
Seriously, other than your spouse, there are probably few people you
want to look at while talking on the phone. Most of us are busy doing
something and video requires 100% concentration since the person on
the other end of the call can see what you are doing. There are other
cases of course where having the video would be nice, but having video
means more work to have the conversation and it doesn't add much in
the way of information exchange.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Carl Jokl <carl.j...@gmail.com
<mailto:carl.j...@gmail.com>> wrote:
It does make me think that I have the technology to do video
conferencing with other people on my computer and it was a novelty
when it was new but these days, the majority of the the time, being
able to see the other person doesn't add a whole lot to the
experience. If it is someone you already see regularly then especially
so. It can be good to be able to see people who live far away and whom
you have not seen in a long time but other than that I wonder if Apple
might be over estimating the social demand for video conferencing.
People will use it when it is a new feature, definitely. Once the
novelty has worn off I don't know if people will find video calling a
feature which they just cannot live without.
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