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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Funny, would be nice if you can use the bandwidth of 3G for actual video conferencing. I regularly get 1+ Mbps with Verizon, wherever I am. It's plenty to do video conferencing, but apparently Apple doesn't think so. I guess Skype, MSN, and Yahoo know a few things that Apple doesn't when it comes to video conferencing and bandwidth requirements?

But that's OK, you can consider the groundbreaking FaceTime (a me-too feature already out on other platforms) as a big step towards dominance (as the 4th or 5th place mobile device manufacturer who's being eclipsed by a new OS) for their users (provided they only use WIFI and not 3G connections).

And as far as security, well, it would be nice if the app store and iTunes wasn't compromised.

175 posted on 07/04/2010 7:53:03 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier
Funny, would be nice if you can use the bandwidth of 3G for actual video conferencing. I regularly get 1+ Mbps with Verizon, wherever I am. It's plenty to do video conferencing, but apparently Apple doesn't think so. I guess Skype, MSN, and Yahoo know a few things that Apple doesn't when it comes to video conferencing and bandwidth requirements?

Is that up or down? How are you doing that at the same time as talking? That's 1megabit per second, Puget, and I really don't think you have ANYWHERE near enough upload bandwidth at that rate for any decent two way video conferencing. Remember those pesky start and stop data bits and effective rates of through-put we talked about the other day when you were claiming a 16GB iPhone could be copied in 40 seconds over a USB2.0 cable? You have the same problem here. Only worse.

As for video tech know how, Apple's been doing it for years with iChat at far higher quality than any of them have been able to achieve.

229 posted on 07/05/2010 4:20:54 AM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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