“Those are the inferences you can make if you believe that the claims Apple has put into its patent relates to stuff it intends to turn into products. The video-call feature is the boldest one; a potential market game changer,” Wolfe writes.
“What’s interesting is not that there are mentions of video recording peppered throughout the patent (though there are). What’s really significant is that when you take all the video mentions as a whole, it’s clear that Apple intends to seriously beef up the iPhone’s video recording capabilities,” Wolfe writes.
“Even more boldly, I believe Apple intends to go well beyond the simple video clip recording that every still camera today has anyway. It intends to turn the iPhone into a handheld video conferencing device!,” Wolfe writes.
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MacDailyNews Take: Tens of millions of video calls? In a mass panic, AT&T’s 3G towers would likely spontaneously pop straight out of the ground. Seriously, they can’t even bring themselves to pull the trigger on tethering, much less video calling. Video calls via Wi-Fi only, maybe, if anything?
