[abuzzooz]

They said it will happen by the end of 2015.

[josteink]

They said they would make facetime an open standard.

Still waiting.

[mooreds]

Here's a story about facetime: http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/facetime-open-standard-...

[erifneerg]

Apple loses Facetime patent lawsuit.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20236114

[72deluxe]

Let's hope this waiting has not caused your Facetime to be Faceache!

[chc]

Which is still not "pulling it off", which is my point.

[artursapek]

I think the "pulling it off" here is coercing their megacorp organization into tolerating the idea of open-sourcing something they poured so much time and money into developing. This is also why people have been celebrating Microsoft open sourcing things recently.

[jokr004]

Which is not a very interesting thing to gripe over.. there's nothing wrong with being excited about the announcement, why don't we stop with the pedantry?

[jsz0]

> Which is still not "pulling it off"

Honestly if you're that nervous and scared of what might happen in the future there's probably nothing Apple (and most other companies) can possibly do to comfort you. Probably better for you to avoid the potential pain and skip this one.