Featuring an easy to use interface, FaceTime for Mac automatically uses your Address Book contacts so there’s no need to create special buddy lists, and it works seamlessly with the built-in camera and mic on Mac notebooks, iMac and Apple LED Cinema Displays.
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“FaceTime makes video calling to or from mobile devices easy for the first time,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “We’ve sold more than 19 million FaceTime-ready iPhone 4 and iPod touch devices in the past four months, and now those users can make FaceTime calls with tens of millions of Mac users.”
FaceTime for Mac requires Mac OS X Snow Leopard and is easy to set up with an Apple ID. The public beta is available immediately as a free download at www.apple.com/mac/facetime.
Source: Apple Inc.
@cj
Because Steve wants you to buy the new Mac air!
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@cjstheman the FaceTime App like all the new Mac OS X apps (QuickTime X, Core Apps) are intel only and in Lion There will not be any universal Apps anymore updates I suppose, so you have to take a new Mac is it so hard after 5 years?
@cjstheman the FaceTime App like all the new Mac OS X apps (QuickTime X, Core Apps) are intel only and in Lion There will not be any universal Apps anymore updates I suppose, so you have to take a new Mac is it so hard after 5 years?
FaceTime for Mac crashes my 21″ iMac built-in isight..
Fixit already..
MDN magic word: poor, as in beta.
FaceTime for Mac crashes my 21″ iMac built-in isight..
Fixit already..
MDN magic word: poor, as in beta.
Servers must be getting hammered. Cannot log in under any of my IDs. The app itself seems to run fine.
Servers must be getting hammered. Cannot log in under any of my IDs. The app itself seems to run fine.
Does not work with my MBP and my iPhone 4.
Does not work with my MBP and my iPhone 4.
You are witnessing the end of the phone carriers as we know it.
Imagine if you live in a city with WiFi all over. you never need to use a carrier 9Ej AT&T or Verizon) to call some one else with iphone or ipod touch or call home if your home has a Mac.
If companies and governments get to spread the WiFi signals, Carrier will no longer be need with Apple devices… I hope that happens some day.
You are witnessing the end of the phone carriers as we know it.
Imagine if you live in a city with WiFi all over. you never need to use a carrier 9Ej AT&T or Verizon) to call some one else with iphone or ipod touch or call home if your home has a Mac.
If companies and governments get to spread the WiFi signals, Carrier will no longer be need with Apple devices… I hope that happens some day.
@ Ankh & loannis986
Then Apple needs to stop building computers that last so damn long. My iMac G5 is running fine without ever having a crash. It runs The Creative Suite in heavy use everyday and handle tons of video editing. The truth is I just haven’t needed to upgrade. Not that I wouldn’t love too but this machine still has plenty of muscle. And Apple still writes software like iTunes and Safari that run just fine on Leopard.
@ Ankh & loannis986
Then Apple needs to stop building computers that last so damn long. My iMac G5 is running fine without ever having a crash. It runs The Creative Suite in heavy use everyday and handle tons of video editing. The truth is I just haven’t needed to upgrade. Not that I wouldn’t love too but this machine still has plenty of muscle. And Apple still writes software like iTunes and Safari that run just fine on Leopard.
Great, like it!
Great, like it!
Shame for people who are Mac users but don’t have Snow Leopard.
Shame for people who are Mac users but don’t have Snow Leopard.
I am in an RV park in Utah with a slow WiFi connection. Called my Son’s iPhone 4 and it was very smooth. Then he called my iPhone 4 with his Mac. I walked all around the RV park giving him a video tour. There were a few breaks so it appears the Wifi is not every even in this park. It is pretty big, about 200 spaces. I am impressed, the wifi here does not work at all with iChat. Good going Steve.
I am in an RV park in Utah with a slow WiFi connection. Called my Son’s iPhone 4 and it was very smooth. Then he called my iPhone 4 with his Mac. I walked all around the RV park giving him a video tour. There were a few breaks so it appears the Wifi is not every even in this park. It is pretty big, about 200 spaces. I am impressed, the wifi here does not work at all with iChat. Good going Steve.
It’s working fantastically on my MacBook Pro and iPhone 4…even on 3G. The quality and low latency are way better than I expected.
It’s working fantastically on my MacBook Pro and iPhone 4…even on 3G. The quality and low latency are way better than I expected.
@millenium12,
You’re Mac has front and rear cameras?
@millenium12,
You’re Mac has front and rear cameras?
“You’re” is supposed to be “Your” of course.
“You’re” is supposed to be “Your” of course.