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When it was first announced, Steve Jobs said it would be an 'open standard', which is why I said apparently. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/07/apple_announce...

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It's not open until they release something. Calling it 'apparently' open might apply if there was something open released, but maybe not updated frequently enough. Using 'supposedly' is probably a better use of terms here.

It's like when Google calls Android "open" but then withholds the source from non-privileged partners.

Google fulfills the requirements of the licenses of android, that are open. So it is open. Do I like the way they do so?

Not so much, but it was necessary to do something against uglifications from the device makers, since seams that google is not willing/able to produce its own canon android hardware (and get the bigger slice of the android devices market, to make it actually canon).

Apparently when Steve Jobs announced they would be opening up FaceTime as a standard it was the first the development team had heard of it which might explain the delay.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/11/facetime-standar...

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