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Apple Delays 32-Person Group FaceTime From iOS 12 Launch (theverge.com) 18

Developer Guilherme Rambo has revealed that the 32-person FaceTime group chat feature "has been removed from the initial release of iOS 12." Apple says the feature "will ship in a future software update later this fall." The Verge: Group FaceTime chats will allow 32 participants in a video call, with tiles of people's faces where you can manually select people to highlight them in the main interface. Apple's delay to group FaceTime chats comes after the company delayed its AirPlay 2 introduction in iOS.
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Apple Delays 32-Person Group FaceTime From iOS 12 Launch

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  • Apple's delay to group FaceTime chats comes after the company delayed its AirPlay 2 introduction in iOS.

    Due to the unidirectional nature of time.

  • by Seven Spirals ( 4924941 ) on Monday August 13, 2018 @05:14PM (#57118984)
    I remember seeing CUseeme "reflectors" do this a very long time ago. Never mind that most of the clients were using parallel-port connected with Connectix Quickcams and other horrible quality cameras. What's old is new again!
  • I can't even begin to imagine this being useful. But I can imagine it producing 32 headaches.

    • I can't even begin to imagine this being useful.

      Keep in mind that the feature here is basically an improvement from 2 nodes to 3-32 nodes.

      I plan to use the feature frequently for my family of 4. I can even see sometimes using it while my parents are out of town and have 6 people on a single FaceTime call.

      My hope is that they're pausing this to add some conference control features, such as a "broadcast mode", like WebEx and many other things have. This will mute all attendees and allow a single speaker to talk at a time.

      If they add that, 32 is not an unre

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