{"id":12456,"date":"2010-09-14T08:56:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T07:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/is-facetime-coming-to-mac-os-and-windows\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:10:31","slug":"is-facetime-coming-to-mac-os-and-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/is-facetime-coming-to-mac-os-and-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Is FaceTime coming to Mac OS and Windows?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Apple fan phenomenon feeds a lot on rumors. The latest one to hit the front pages of all Mac-related blogs worldwide is that Apple is planning to add <strong>support for FaceTime<\/strong> to its native IM client, <strong>iChat<\/strong>. Even harder to believe, they say Apple is also working on a FaceTime application&#8230; <strong>for Windows<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/09\/facetime.jpg\" alt=\"Facetime\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The news was first spread by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mac4ever.com\/news\/57279\/rumeurs_du_vendredi_ilife_et_facetime\/\">Mac4ever<\/a>, a French blog that\u2019s earned a reputation for <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?u=http:\/\/www.mac4ever.com\/news\/48037\/apple_ce_qui_se_dit_dans_les_couloirs_imac_et_souris_tactiles\/&amp;hl=en&amp;langpair=auto|en%22\">predicting<\/a> lots of new Apple products like the Magic Mouse and the iPad. The idea is simply great; I\u2019ve tried FaceTime on the iPhone 4 and it works like a charm, so it would be awesome to be able to enjoy this new way of communication with even more people when it spreads on to more platforms.<\/p>\n<p>On the downside, the hypothetical desktop FaceTime client has a big competitor: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\">Skype<\/a>. The current king of desktop-based videochat is not going to let go of its crown so easily, so I guess Apple still has a lot of work to do here. As with any other Mac-related rumor, these stories should be taken with precaution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apple fan phenomenon feeds a lot on rumors. The latest one to hit the front pages of all Mac-related blogs worldwide is that Apple is planning to add support for FaceTime to its native IM client, iChat. Even harder to believe, they say Apple is also working on a FaceTime application&#8230; for Windows. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/is-facetime-coming-to-mac-os-and-windows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is FaceTime coming to Mac OS and Windows?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2533],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacetime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334750,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions\/334750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}