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> You don’t buy an iPhone expecting to install whatever you want.

I specifically bought an iPhone to facetime my family from another country. I'd love to be able to have my apps from my old android. Or, use facetime from an android...

But yeah, I'd love to install whatever I want and that's what I'd expect instead of having to buy everything twice when I switched OSes.

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There are plenty of competitors to Facetime, available across multiple different platforms. Google and Facebook for example enjoy pushing their messaging and video messaging ecosystems across multiple devices.

There's nothing unique about Facetime, except it's Apple exclusive.

Yeah, the issue is that we're talking about my parents here. I'm happy to use a different service (in fact, I prefer it) but my parents are old and stubborn and refuse to use a different service.

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