And it apparently also changes your hairstyle and the clothes you're wearing just to confuse the person you're speaking to.



http://www.macrumors.com/2010/09/10/fac ... d-windows/

It needs a filter that makes everyone I talk to look like Scarlett Johansson, then I might actually use it.

Seriously, I see no reason why you wouldn't put facetime support into iChat, it's a completely obvious thing to do.

Jon

Yes but why put it in a paid update? If they included it in iChat then update that for free and you instantly have millions more users to make use of the system and make FaceTalk more likely to be accepted as a standard.

I don't see why they made FaceTime when they already had iChat that does video, iChat for the iPhone with some enhancements would have done the trick imo

Yes integrating it might make iChat actually worthwhile using.

IIRC iChat uses someone else's IM protocol (AOL?) which probably isn't the most optimal solution for video. FaceTime is designed purely as a video transmission protocol, rather than a text transmission protocol that has had video bolted on to it as it evolved.

Plus if they did iChat for the phone, it would need to support all the things iChat on the desktop does, more or less. By making a specific video chat application, they get a clean slate about what it does or does not support.

Jon

In which case why don't they release a free Facetalk app for macs. No need to integrate into iChat or anything else for that matter.

+1, they could even phase out iChat if they wanted to, perhaps put some legacy stuff into Facetime (or as a downloadable add-on) and get rid of it in a few years