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FaceTime requires the initiator have a Mac.

Mac users can call others. Others cannot call Mac.



Exactly wrong in every way. FaceTime requires the Mac or iPhone or iPad user create a link. It's a regular (persistent but revokable) link to a web page with javascript and shit, but anyone can click the link which initiates the call; Others can call Mac, it's Mac which can't call others.


> FaceTime requires the Mac or iPhone or iPad user create a link.

Yes, FaceTime requires that the Apple user initiate.

> It's a regular (persistent but revokable) link

You are correct that you can save the link somewhere for future use.


> Yes, FaceTime requires that the Apple user initiate.

My customer clicks the link whenever they want, and my phone rings like any other FaceTime call with the label I have given that link in my phone.

That's what I think most people want and mean by "initiate", and so I think it misleading at-best to suggest the customer (non-apple user) is unable to initiate the call.

> You are correct

And this is the first correct thing you have said.


Yeah, and I don't have a Mac computer anymore, and neither do my parents or my grandmother.

I coordinated with my parents, we're gonna try the free Teams thing.




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