@tu eres estupido its not whether anybody uses it or not ...its about the feature being in a phone. Many many mobile phones have got a front facing camera on them, its nothing new.
As much as I hate Steve Jobs, I appreciate his marketing skills and pity his customers.
@njsrikar what are you talking about?! is that what you got from this web blog? all you read was "iphone has this latest and greatest thing called a front facing camera, man i dont know of any phone that has this. man this is cool, huh huh huh he he he".
re-read, very slowly since you weren't paying attention the first time or just too slow to understan. the topic is FACETIME VIDEO CALL WORKS BEAUTIFULLY ON AIRPLANE'S IN-FLIGHT WIFI.
just from the title you will get the just of what the meat of the article is about. lets break it down since a whole sentence obviously poses a challenge to comprehend.
FACETIME VIDEO CALL---FaceTime is a video calling software feature for iPhone 4's phone application, developed by Apple and announced at WWDC 2010. It is based on numerous open industry standards and Apple has pledged to release it as an open standard allowing other companies to develop around it.
WORKS BEAUTIFULLY--- meaning that the above iPhone 4 phone application (Currently, it only works with a Wi-Fi connection, as there is no 3G (UTMS/HSPA) data support at the moment) works as stated, over a wi-fi connection which happens to work beautifully over wi-fi which happens to be provided in-flight, i hope i dont have to explain what Wi-Fi or what an airplane is. which WAS NOT CREATED BY APPLE by the way.
dont want anyone mistaken engadget for claiming Apple were the first to implement Wi-Fi to the world or be the creator of the airplane.
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No what you see is a company that actually made video chatting over a phone part of the system, it's free, it works, and there is no set up. Let's see "qik" say that, qik is 3rd party, it's NOT that great, you have to pay for options and you have to set up server settings etc., hardly "for the masses".
@tu eres estupido 1.) i am funny, or so i am told more then i am not. 2.) im in no way trying to defend engadget and their articles. im making a point. in which many commentators are too dull to get.
i understand why all the "iHaters", or what ever term is being coined now, take their time out to read each individual article about the iPhone that Engadget writes. They subconsciously are in love with iPhone and apple products.
the sooner the folks who are so opinionated about Apple and who writes about Apple figure out they need an apple product in their life to be that closer to fulfillment, the sooner they will be at peace with them self's
@tu eres estupido understandable, but you have the iPhone 4. announced early June, hyped up so god damn much that if someone were to mention Jesus Christ people would say "who?". Pre-orders went down June 15th, that was a cluster fuck of mega-proportions, 600,000 reserved? then the opening day. 1.7 million sold in 2 days.
there's no way of avoiding the buzz on this thing. even though everyone is sick of hearing about this god damn phone (which i am a proud owner of) it is still in the news because its almost a month since it has been released and you still cant find one.
add the controversy of Apple and their lack of taking responsibility of this antenna issue, and you have a story bigger then the birth of Christ, the extermination of the Jews and the released audio recordings of Mel Gibson threatening to kill Oksana put together times 20.
it's going to get covered whether we enjoy it or not. the problem is people are "selective reading". they see iPhone in a title and they go blood drunk and want to chew the ass out of the article, the writers and talk shit about people who own an apple product, want to own an apple product and who even have thought of owning an apple product way before they even read a single word.
i dont know the demographics of this site, im assuming its 18-30? i dunno. but i would say it makes up of a majority of "adults". but from the comments you read of all these idiots complaining you think you would be reading TMZ and a group of teenage girls are debating if Jacob is better then Edward.
@DefPoet Who cares about facetime, there already exists STANDARDS for video calling on 3g phones. Go visit Europe or Japan where theyve had this for YEARS. Apple did NOT invent the front facing camera, and they reinvented the wheel when it comes to how video calling works. 3g phones in other industrialized nations handle video calling just as a voice call over the 3g connection not a lame wifi implementation.
@DefPoet open standard will allow 3rd part devs to publicly access the FaceTime app while adhering to certain requirements and rights associated with it.
@DefPoet Sarcasm is definitely not a strong suit i can see. if you're that thick to have not noticed then you probably spend way too much time on your computer sans interaction with live human beings.
@njsrikar No, actually no one says that except bitter little whiners when they want to complain about this video chat system actually being used by people. On a phone owned by over a million people.
@DefPoet If you would have read what was written then you wouldn't have mistaken what was said. It is an open standard. Meaning other could use it but but have to stay within the requirements
Actually it's an "Open Spec". That means that other companies can use the spec and integrate it into their own software. I'm not sure how you can be so confused about it, it's pretty simple.
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dudes at engadget ...even you guys talk about a front facing camera as if its the latest and greatest add-on to a phone and invented by Apple.
@njsrikar I know its pointless no one who has an iphone 4 even uses it (me included)
@tu eres estupido its not whether anybody uses it or not ...its about the feature being in a phone. Many many mobile phones have got a front facing camera on them, its nothing new.
As much as I hate Steve Jobs, I appreciate his marketing skills and pity his customers.
@njsrikar i know its just like you don't see "Qik working on android phone on an airplane"... its always iphone iphone iphone
@njsrikar what are you talking about?! is that what you got from this web blog? all you read was "iphone has this latest and greatest thing called a front facing camera, man i dont know of any phone that has this. man this is cool, huh huh huh he he he".
re-read, very slowly since you weren't paying attention the first time or just too slow to understan. the topic is FACETIME VIDEO CALL WORKS BEAUTIFULLY ON AIRPLANE'S IN-FLIGHT WIFI.
just from the title you will get the just of what the meat of the article is about. lets break it down since a whole sentence obviously poses a challenge to comprehend.
FACETIME VIDEO CALL---FaceTime is a video calling software feature for iPhone 4's phone application, developed by Apple and announced at WWDC 2010. It is based on numerous open industry standards and Apple has pledged to release it as an open standard allowing other companies to develop around it.
WORKS BEAUTIFULLY--- meaning that the above iPhone 4 phone application (Currently, it only works with a Wi-Fi connection, as there is no 3G (UTMS/HSPA) data support at the moment) works as stated, over a wi-fi connection which happens to work beautifully over wi-fi which happens to be provided in-flight, i hope i dont have to explain what Wi-Fi or what an airplane is. which WAS NOT CREATED BY APPLE by the way.
dont want anyone mistaken engadget for claiming Apple were the first to implement Wi-Fi to the world or be the creator of the airplane.
if you need more assistance of understanding what the words you are reading on your screen mean, please feel free to contact your nearest Sylvan Learning Center.
@njsrikar
No what you see is a company that actually made video chatting over a phone part of the system, it's free, it works, and there is no set up. Let's see "qik" say that, qik is 3rd party, it's NOT that great, you have to pay for options and you have to set up server settings etc., hardly "for the masses".
@audrywienerdog you think you're funny, but you're just heading closer towards oblivion fanyboy
@tu eres estupido 1.) i am funny, or so i am told more then i am not. 2.) im in no way trying to defend engadget and their articles. im making a point. in which many commentators are too dull to get.
i understand why all the "iHaters", or what ever term is being coined now, take their time out to read each individual article about the iPhone that Engadget writes. They subconsciously are in love with iPhone and apple products.
the sooner the folks who are so opinionated about Apple and who writes about Apple figure out they need an apple product in their life to be that closer to fulfillment, the sooner they will be at peace with them self's
@audrywienerdog i just don't want to see a good blog turn into CNET... apple fanboy heaven
@tu eres estupido understandable, but you have the iPhone 4. announced early June, hyped up so god damn much that if someone were to mention Jesus Christ people would say "who?". Pre-orders went down June 15th, that was a cluster fuck of mega-proportions, 600,000 reserved? then the opening day. 1.7 million sold in 2 days.
there's no way of avoiding the buzz on this thing. even though everyone is sick of hearing about this god damn phone (which i am a proud owner of) it is still in the news because its almost a month since it has been released and you still cant find one.
add the controversy of Apple and their lack of taking responsibility of this antenna issue, and you have a story bigger then the birth of Christ, the extermination of the Jews and the released audio recordings of Mel Gibson threatening to kill Oksana put together times 20.
it's going to get covered whether we enjoy it or not.
the problem is people are "selective reading". they see iPhone in a title and they go blood drunk and want to chew the ass out of the article, the writers and talk shit about people who own an apple product, want to own an apple product and who even have thought of owning an apple product way before they even read a single word.
i dont know the demographics of this site, im assuming its 18-30? i dunno. but i would say it makes up of a majority of "adults". but from the comments you read of all these idiots complaining you think you would be reading TMZ and a group of teenage girls are debating if Jacob is better then Edward.
@audrywienerdog
Open standard != open source
Apple has never stated that they will make it open source
@DefPoet Who cares about facetime, there already exists STANDARDS for video calling on 3g phones. Go visit Europe or Japan where theyve had this for YEARS. Apple did NOT invent the front facing camera, and they reinvented the wheel when it comes to how video calling works. 3g phones in other industrialized nations handle video calling just as a voice call over the 3g connection not a lame wifi implementation.
@d0ug That was exactly my point.
@DefPoet open standard will allow 3rd part devs to publicly access the FaceTime app while adhering to certain requirements and rights associated with it.
@d0ug
That's what my view too. :)
I was just pointing out that the Apple simpleton was lying
@audrywienerdog
That's not true. Apple will be the gate keeper since the Facetime protocol has priopertiy apple code in it. It is not open.
@DefPoet Sarcasm is definitely not a strong suit i can see. if you're that thick to have not noticed then you probably spend way too much time on your computer sans interaction with live human beings.
@njsrikar No, actually no one says that except bitter little whiners when they want to complain about this video chat system actually being used by people. On a phone owned by over a million people.
Oh well. Best deal with that.
@audrywienerdog
Aspergers actually. But your post up top about your head and rear is funny though
@DefPoet If you would have read what was written then you wouldn't have mistaken what was said. It is an open standard. Meaning other could use it but but have to stay within the requirements
@DefPoet
Actually it's an "Open Spec". That means that other companies can use the spec and integrate it into their own software. I'm not sure how you can be so confused about it, it's pretty simple.