Apple’s upcoming iChat AV upgrade has me totally ready to start a plan to take over the world (or at least hold it a million billion dollar ransom). Kudos to Apple for going after new target markets!
I have an iSight, and I’ve only used it to establish 1 way video conferences with PC users so I can do voice chats (this was pre-Skype). Invariably, I’d have the camera pointed at the wall within minutes, if not seconds. We’ve had talk of video phones for, what, 50 years now, and it’s pretty clear that people aren’t interested. The only area where I’ve seen any kind of meaningful adoption is the remote business meeting, and the new iChat interface fits that well. Outside of the would-be world conquerer, the app could boost Apple’s rep in small tech companies, which are coincidentally the most likely to bring out the next killer apps.
I’m only now starting to get into the new feature list for Tiger, and while the user-centric stuff doesn’t excite me much (Safari RSS? Big whoop, although Spotlight has me all drippy), I’m super-excited to see what developers do with the back end technologies like Core Data.
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