Hi Max, The person you are planning to face time with needs to either have an iDevice that supports it, such as an iPhone, iPad 2/latest generation or an iPod Touch with the front facing camera, or have the Face Time software on their Mac. The interface itself is accessible - I face time my dad who lives in another country all the time and I've never experienced problems with accessibility. The main differences between Face Time and Skype are that Face Time is restricted to Apple devices and it's a video calling app. Skype is able to do both and, of course, has the other features such as the ability to call regular phones and mobiles, and supports straight audio calls as well as video. My dad likes Face Time because he is able to see me on-screen, but we have the data and the devices to easily support it.
Hope that helps. Cheers, Chantelle On 07/04/2012, at 12:03 PM, Maxwell Ivey wrote: > hello group; i was wondering if anyone has any experience with apple's > FaceTime. it is installed on my new macbook pro. does the person you > connect with have to be running the software too? do they have to be an > iPhone user? just wondering if i should try it or just skip it and install > Skype. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks, max > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
