FaceTime isn’t the first video calling implementation on a smartphone but it’s the first one that’s easy to use and has a common and widespread install base, and that brings with it some interesting and decidedly futuristic advantages. Take this, which happened to a friend of mine today:
Our primary network administrator was off-site today and our backup admin was unexpectedly sick. So of course one of our business-critical machines decided to go down. I don’t work in IT but I have a technical background and know my way around Windows so I was drafted to go in and try to “fix it”. Needless to say one look at the Linux error screen and I knew I was in way over my head. Remote login wasn’t working either. Luckily I have an iPhone 4 and so does our network admin so we jumped on a FaceTime call. I flipped the camera […]
Read the original post by Rene Ritchie