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iPhone FaceTime: widespread adoption of video calling at last?

Posted By Mattias Ganslandt on June 10th, 2010

While face-to-face video calling on mobile phones has been available for around a decade now, the technology has never gain substantial widespread public adoption. However, the inclusion of “FaceTime” video calling in Apple’s upcoming iOS 4 for iPhone4, announced Monday by CEO Steve jobs at WWDC2010, may

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@Tsahi Levent-Levi. It seems to that there is indeed value in doing at least some of this for Apple. The huge revenue that the App store generate for the company for the company is based upon 3rd party applications and was a feature that developed fr...
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iPhone FaceTime: widespread adoption of video calling at last?

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While face-to-face video calling on mobile phones has been available for around a decade now, the technology has never gain substantial widespread publ...

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