You mean in a timely manner, right? Because the crazy thing is that they did follow through on FaceTime. It just took them nearly a decade. Seeing all of this now, one might wonder if there were certain legal motivations for that.
Allowing people to join Facetime calls through a browser is not "opening up" the platform. Until they have an API I can write a custom client for it's just a different kind o
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Yeah, I debated commenting about the somewhat-crippled cross-platform support that recently landed, but that was really just in response to Zoom taking the ball away from their court and Apple being desperate to try and get it back.
I don’t think it had anything to do with their earlier promise (and I’m also not convinced patent issues were the real crux of the matter ten years ago).
> Yeah, I debated commenting about the somewhat-crippled cross-platform support that recently landed, but that was really just in response to Zoom taking the ball away from their court and Apple being desperate to try and get it back.
Not really; Apple simply doesn't move that fast. You can certainly see projects get more resources as a result of trends, but that isn't necessarily going to move the release forward a year.
