Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > comp.mobile.android > #37467

Re: Facetime on Android

From Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: Facetime on Android
Date 2017-01-06 20:40 +0000
Organization NOYB
Message-ID <edadmkF9g1qU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <060120170858151176%nospam@nospam.invalid> <o4ocjt$5eq$1@gioia.aioe.org> <060120171103030483%nospam@nospam.invalid> <edaaknF8nmpU1@mid.individual.net> <060120171516232529%nospam@nospam.invalid>

Show all headers | View raw


nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <edaaknF8nmpU1@mid.individual.net>, Frank Slootweg
> <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > > > >>> I have Android where others have Facetime.
> > > > >>> I suspect the answer is no but is there any way to get Facetime on
> > > > >>> Android?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Nope. It's Apple proprietary and no clients have been made available
> > > > >> outside of iOS and macOS.
> > > > > 
> > > > > apple was planning on making it open source but got sued and was
> > > > > forced to not do that.
> > 
> >   But Apple could still keep it closed source and port it to other
> > platforms, but apparently 'chose' not do do so.
> 
> because there's no benefit to bother, even if the resources to do so
> were zero (which they aren't).

  I'm sure that in your walled garden universe there isn't, but we can
hope that Apple is actually just a tad smarter than you, cant we!?

  BTW, can you please go and create your own walled garden version of
Usenet? It would be ever so much better for all concerned! After all,
who needs fscking standards [1] if you can make closed proprietary
stuff?

[1] Both de jure and de facto.

Back to comp.mobile.android | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

Facetime on Android Stijn De Jong <stijndekoning@nlnet.nl> - 2016-12-31 07:36 +0100
  Re: Facetime on Android Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2016-12-31 09:25 +0100
    Re: Facetime on Android Stijn De Jong <stijndekoning@nlnet.nl> - 2016-12-31 20:17 +0100
  Re: Facetime on Android tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-12-31 04:07 -0500
    Re: Facetime on Android Stijn De Jong <stijndekoning@nlnet.nl> - 2016-12-31 20:17 +0100
  Re: Facetime on Android Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2017-01-06 08:36 +0000
    Re: Facetime on Android nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-06 08:58 -0500
      Re: Facetime on Android Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2017-01-06 16:20 +0100
        Re: Facetime on Android nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-06 11:03 -0500
          Re: Facetime on Android Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2017-01-06 19:48 +0000
            Re: Facetime on Android nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-06 15:16 -0500
              Re: Facetime on Android Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2017-01-06 20:40 +0000
                Re: Facetime on Android nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-06 15:48 -0500
                Re: Facetime on Android Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2017-01-07 11:08 +0000
                Re: Facetime on Android nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-07 13:06 -0500
                Re: Facetime on Android Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2017-01-07 19:54 +0000
                Re: Facetime on Android nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-07 15:11 -0500
                Re: Facetime on Android Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2017-01-07 22:57 +0000
                Re: Facetime on Android nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-07 18:23 -0500
                Re: Facetime on Android Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2017-01-07 19:54 +0000
                Re: Facetime on Android nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-07 15:11 -0500
                Re: Facetime on Android Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2017-01-07 21:29 +0000
                Re: Facetime on Android nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-07 18:23 -0500
                Re: Facetime on Android tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2017-01-08 00:48 -0500
                Re: Facetime on Android Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2017-01-08 17:00 +0000
                Re: Facetime on Android nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-10 21:41 -0500

csiph-web