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Re:Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple by tehwebguy on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @06:16PM (#12213857)
Wow, I never bothered to look up why FaceTime worked so well for me at the beginning and suddenly became completely unusable for me later on.
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Re:Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple by lechevalierd3on on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @07:10PM (#12214154)
Software patent at its worst :(
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Re:Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple by jrcii on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @07:44PM (#12214318)
It would be nice if they just used SIP in the first place so that other systems could interoperate with FaceTime. Typical Apple.
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Re:Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple by givinguflac on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @09:47PM (#12214980)
While you're irrationally hating, you should know FaceTime was originally planned to be cross platform. The need to completely change how it worked obviously stopped that from happening.
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Re:Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple by lmm on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @08:32AM (#12217430)
Or provided a convenient excuse for what Apple had actually planned to do all along.
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Re:Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple by braderhart on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @10:09PM (#12215073)
What proof?
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Re:Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple by Navarr on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @10:38PM (#12215187)
Apple did initially claim Facetime would be an open standard.

> Upon the launch of the iPhone 4, Jobs stated that Apple would immediately start working with standards bodies to make the FaceTime protocol an "open industry standard".

claims Wikipedia. Other websites also highlight the "open standard" it was supposed to become:

[1]: http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/facetime-open-standard-... [2]: https://redd.it/1xuzif [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2605498 [4]: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4547345?start=0&tstart=... [5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaceTime

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Re:Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple by erlehmann_ on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @12:29PM (#12219175)
Whenever someone mentions FaceTime, I immediately think of this blog post “Steve Jobs sometimes lies to you”: https://zachholman.com/posts/steve-jobs-sometimes-lies/
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Re:Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple by themartorana on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @08:17PM (#12214476)
Comment below says SIP was covered by this spurious patent, so that wouldn't have made much difference.
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