I am just about to get a new facetime-ready iMac, and wondered whether facetime will work to users on Windows computers. And if so, what application would they need?
Most of my contacts are as-yet-unconverted Windows users.
Thanks.
iMac G5 (1st gen). MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8), Bluetooth mouse/KB. Airport card. VirtualPC. WD 500GB MyBook E
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Allan
One of the things I've recently (today) found out about Skype is that it uses a peer-to-peer protocol. For me that has two issues - 1) I don't know where my voip traffic is being routed through. Even though it is encrypted, that encryption has been compromised before and probably will be (if not already) again. And 2) while your Skype agent, app, whatever, is active, some of your network bandwidth is being used by others for their communications.
I only found out about (2) after re-installing Skype and noticing the number of firewall rules that were required just to get to the log in page. There was nothing in the installation process that warned me about the p2p protocol although it is probably buried somewhere in the depths of their T&C's also, I pay quite a lot of money for my limited broadband plus my ISP reduces my bandwidth if it detects that I am using any kind of p2p protocol.
Having said that, I haven't had chance, yet, to check to see if Apple's Facetime also uses the same protocols or not.
P.S. +1 for a Windows Facetime agent
Oh, now I understand why my brdband was going down all the time I used p2p or skype!!!.... g0d4mn!
+1 for Facetime in Windows..
Google uses XMPP which is an open standard.
There is an app called VSEE on the app store. This is cross platform to Android, IOS, Windows, MAC. This can do multi-video chat, screen share and IM and its free for personal use....
Worth a look
Why everyone wants Facetime on windows ? Skype is cross-platform app and it's much better than Facetime.
Facetime to Windows?
