(via Gizmodo)Shattered Dreams—iPhone Video Chat Might Be Wi-Fi Only
Code trickles promised video chat hiding inside iPhone OS 4, raising hopes and inflating sci-fi fantasies. Now code snippets bring us back to earth, that iPhone video calling might be real but only over Wi-Fi.
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The article continues on to explain that the code reveals a limitation when trying to access iChat, but this is a very clear UhDuh point to me. AT&T can just barely handle the capacity of it's current subscriber load with just OG, 3G and 3GS (Lord knows what's going to happen to speed and dead zone areas when the iPad 3G comes out, though I'm guessing there will be a negative correlation between the two - three guesses as to which direction). Imagine how IMPOSSIBLE it would be to check the Giant's score or holler at yer boy on facebook if people were trying to take up enough bandwidth on the data network to video chat. Crash and burn, folks. That's an inevitable crash and burn.
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