Why would i use Facetime over Skype?

You can use whatever you like.

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If you like Skype, use it. I've used both and the Facetime experience is soooooooooooooooooooo much better in terms of image quality and smoothness of operation. Connecting with my grandaughters via Facetime between my iPhone and their iPad 2 was way cooler, easier, and loads more fun than Skype.

Why not check with the folks who run Skype and find out? There should be info with the Skype App or on their website.

Use both. Facetime integrates with your contact list and phone application and, when the connection is decent, provides much better audio and video than Skype with very rare drop-outs or disconnects -- FaceTime is point-to-point video-calling. FaceTime also does not require the FaceTime client to be running to receive a call, a feature that saves batteries.

Skype, on the other hand, supports more platforms (esp. mobile), provides IM, a contact list in the cloud, and Skype-to-phone and long-distance calling features. However, to receive incoming calls, the Skype client needs to be running and connected, costing you battery power and some data usage. Skype also uses a peer-to-peer routing model which sometimes results in spurious disconnects and degraded audio and video (when peers resign suddenly).

Apple's iMessage (check their site on iOS 5) will add the IM features of Skype (without the need for persistent connections).

I would avoid running any video-chat over 3G unless you have unlimited usage, however, as it's a huge bandwidth hog.

There's a place for both.

Basically you can use skype when ever but if you ask me i prefer factime when i am home because the video quality is so much better

However, Skype for Mac is just abysmal (messed user interface, frequent crashes). I would really love if Apple could interface FaceTime with Skype. Let our PC friends use the Microsoft thing, and let us use the Apple's one.

Why are you replying to a thread that is over three years old?

This is a 3 year old thread. why did you bring it back only to complain about a 3rd party product not associated with Apple in any way?

I don't personally use Skype on my Mac, but on my iPad an iPhone it works o.k. I can video chat with people that don't have Apple devices.

With that said, its unlikely Apple would even attempt such a thing since Skype belongs to Microsoft. It would be like Chevrolet attempting to interface with Ford's Navigation and media center system in their cars.

In any case, you can use Facetime with users of Facetime, and Skype with users of Skype. But you can't use Facetime with users of Skype or vice-versa

There is one benefit in my case - use FaceTime with another FaceTime user who does not use Skype 🙂