so i know apple didn't invent chat or webcams -- but again they made it easy... As with most recent summers - my wife and kids are out staying with family 3 states away (somebody has to earn the bacon ;-). Anyway - while we try to talk each day, i really enjoy the chat sessions. I have the camera built into my Mac Book and my brother-in-law has a desktop mac with the camera built in. so i just did a 10 or so minute chat with the family. each of the kids got to tell me about their day and i got to trade funny faces with my neice and new born son. all you need is broadband. i'll tell you -- talking on the phone is OK, but doing a chat session with video is a million times (ok, you know what i mean) better. i notice that my kids want to talk longer and tell me more. I think in part cause the have visual interaction, not just the audio with the phone.
so when does an iPhone (or any phone) let me do live chat? and when can i pay my internet provider a few bucks more a month to improve the quality of my video stream (or audio stream?). The are probably afraid i won't make phone calls anymore --- well i use my mobile free minutes anyway... so service providers -- get with it!!!
btw -- i become really family lonely when they are away -- so last night as i worked away i had music on the big screen tv with family photos floating by as the screen saver -- yes AppleTV - dang them apple guys get way too much of my money -- make it so simple, so elegant. ;-).
sometime i'll post a diagram of my home network and why i do things the way i do.
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