Originally Posted by paulbrock:
“I'm *reasonably* sold on video calls - the weekly phone call to the family is now a Skype video call, but Facetime is only for macs. Skype is for anyone, Google talk (with video) is for anyone. I don't need to worry about whether or not my friend has an iphone or a mac at home, and I *know* that not all of them do. So why would people use facetime when there are more inclusive solutions available?”
“I'm *reasonably* sold on video calls - the weekly phone call to the family is now a Skype video call, but Facetime is only for macs. Skype is for anyone, Google talk (with video) is for anyone. I don't need to worry about whether or not my friend has an iphone or a mac at home, and I *know* that not all of them do. So why would people use facetime when there are more inclusive solutions available?”
agreed, but that was more about using video at all as opposed to not using it.
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“As for voice commands....yes its ok when it works. Apple didn't demo the bit where you have to explain who your wife is, or where your work is. Or tried it with regional accents, or unusual Proper nouns. But regardless, whether it's Wildfire on Orange (anyone remember that?!) or voice recognition on a desktop, or google voice search, the times its useful are pretty niche.”
“As for voice commands....yes its ok when it works. Apple didn't demo the bit where you have to explain who your wife is, or where your work is. Or tried it with regional accents, or unusual Proper nouns. But regardless, whether it's Wildfire on Orange (anyone remember that?!) or voice recognition on a desktop, or google voice search, the times its useful are pretty niche.”
i don't think you have to explain where everything is, it uses the location services. so an example like remind me get some milk when i'm passing Sainsburys that pops up when you get close to Sainsburys is pretty clever.
Iain




(I of course am angelic and never do this!) Or maybe you're juggling tasks while you're on the phone, but video calling would show that you weren't giving a person your full attention?
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