Hace unos días escribía sobre el estado de Facetime como estándar abierto según lo que había prometido el propio Jobs en una de las keynotes. Y hoy leo en las notas de Gruber sobre iMessage que:
Every time I bring up FaceTime, at least one reader will pipe up asking about Steve Jobs’s on-stage promise at its premiere in 2010 to release FaceTime as an “open standard”. That went wrong two ways. First, the story I’ve been told is that releasing FaceTime as an open standard was a decision Jobs made unilaterally while working on the 2010 WWDC keynote. The FaceTime engineering team learned about it when we did — when Jobs promised it on stage. It wasn’t designed or engineered from the outset to be open, and so even under the best of circumstances, it might have taken years for FaceTime to go open. But even worse, Apple lost a patent lawsuit over FaceTime that required them to change FaceTime’s architecture.
So I don’t think we’re ever actually going to see FaceTime as an open standard. But I think the sentiment that drove Jobs to want it to be an open standard applies to the idea of releasing iMessage for Android. Apple doesn’t need to rely on platform-exclusive lock-in.
No tengo dudas sobre las fuentes de información de Gruber. Y es interesante conocer estos detalles que ocurren detrás de escenas para entender que muchas cosas a veces no son lo que dicen ser. Incluso en empresas tan gigantes y con un foco tan grande en la comunicación como Apple.
