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Relatedly, what I don't get is how everyone is so excited about many-user FaceTime. I'm just glad they finally brought it back.

Back in 2008 or 2009, all of team reddit used iChat AV to have a video meeting, and one of us was in California, one in Boston, and two in Australia. And it worked flawlessly. And it worked on Windows!

FaceTime still hasn't caught up to Apple's own discontinued product ten years later.

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You could also show any Quicklook supported file in the iChat AV video stream. I remember doing some remote Keynote presentations that way. Resolutions wasn't great, but it worked. Ten+ years ago.

I believe that they axed the mac product, then ported the iOS implementation to the Mac -- which makes perfect sense even if it was effectively a regression for those folks who had been happily using the desktop version.

The new version looks amazing, even if it may still be technically a regression in some nooks and crannies.

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