What Apple's FaceTime Means to Us
I really like Apple's announcement of the iPhone FaceTime video chat application. First, it's always good to hear Steve Jobs endorsing the story about how important video communication is in our lives, and how much consumers expect this capability to be available in the mobile world for smartphones. Great validation of the category... So that's the good news for the industry. For us at ooVoo, it's even better news. Apple offers a very limited solution in which their video chat capabilities can only be used from one iPhone 4 to another and Wi-Fi only! That is going to limit a lot of people from being able to contact each other. What about your wife on a PC (or maybe a Mac), your sister on an iPhone 3GS, and when you are at the soccer game of your 9-year-old and want to show a live video of him scoring a goal. What about having the phone not connected to Wi-Fi, but just to the regular cellular network? That's how I see it: the real video chat solution needs to be available cross-platform, on any PC, on any smartphone, on any tablet computer, on any netbook (soon after that on any TV). It also needs to be connected to any broadband network, including mobile networks. That's where ooVoo plays-any device any network- as videochat needs to be available anywhere anytime...
Philippe
CEO, ooVoo