Thanks for proving my point.
No one can video chat with you when you're invisible.
Facetime is much better than anything else for 1 on 1 video conferencing.
There are plenty of people who are hard to reason with when it comes to technology. I'd rather not spend the time and energy to teach them.
I don't have to call my mother and walk her through some steps and then tell her what it means when using Facetime. Then repeat this process for everyone who is like her.
Setting your status invisible is only a crappy workaround, because:
You really love Microsoft
Setting your status invisible is only a crappy workaround, because:
1. You will have to micromanage your status, which is a hassle and you're human so you're bound to forget it.
2. You won't get any incoming video chats when invisible. Which means if you set and forget being invisible, no one will be able to contact you.
I want my video conferencing to work EXACTLY like a phone call, and Facetime does that perfectly. The benefits of having facetime work just like a phone call is simple, it's very easy to explain it to people, they are familiar with the concept of a phone call. In fact they still ask me if it's really free
I have used both extensively so I know what I am talking about. The video/audio quality of facetime + smooth frame rate hasn't been beaten on any video conferencing app I have used.
"I'm going to call you" is a lot easier to understand and explain than "I am going to create a chat room so we can talk." Especially when explaining it to your mom and what she has to do with that invite she received. Facetime is just like a phone call, phone rings and she answers it. You're going through all those workarounds when the simpler iOS solution is better.
How so? I have gmail but never been forced into a Google+ account. I never use a web browser to check my e-mail though if that's what you're asking.
From my mail clients.
It's both.
It's a subpar experience where they had to wait for the other party to come online, and it was a pain to set up in the first place. Facetime just makes it better quality and convenient, it's the superior alternative. Of course you'll pay the Apple tax to use it.
No, can't do that when I am invisible (crappy Android workaround to not announcing your status to the world). She has to HOVER her mouse over my offline contact in the gtalk contact list, and then click on the video chat icon. Then, it will pop-up another website (if her browser doesn't block it) where you have to click on another button to initiate the hangout. It will also run Java at that moment, she's asking questions like what is a hangout, etc.
As I explained below, doesn't work like that when I'm invisible.
Yes, it looks promising. I wonder how it's going to handle the signing into/out of skype business, I'm curious to see if it's as neatly integrated as Facetime.
wat... If skype is installed on phone you get push notifications. It's always on as long as the phone is on. I've used it extensively as did my parents. You're always online unless you specifically set it not to.
Convenient.. just shell out $200 + $60/Month for phone or $1000 for a computer. You and I have two different definitions of convenient.
Sorry but my parents and sister, none of who are tech geeks, can cope with hangouts absolutely fine. This is anecdotal but you seem to like dealing in those. Hangouts have been invaluable while we are living in three different cities being able to chat together each week. For that feature alone nothing else comes close.
Makes no fucking sense. And surely a phone call is more disruptive and less easy to ignore than an IM.
Not when the expectations of the calling party are different for both, brought on by years of conditioning. When you don't respond to an IM, other party knows you're online and just not responding, because that's how they've been using it for the past 15 years.
