Give Dan Gillmor for bringing credit to Global IP Sound. Their codec powers SKYPE. But the big revelation in the story in today’s San Jose Mercury News is the prospect of an Apple Phone Network.
When you think about it, Apple computers have amazing sound and video capabilities, maybe better than any PC on the market. The Eye-Sight video camera is rock stable according to people who use it.
If Apple is the company that revolutionized the computer market, was the first to mass market wireless in the home, with the Airport, how big of a stretch would it be for them to go the videophone route, something that always failed before, but that was before the proliferation of broadband.