Quote: "other countries, it's been there for years..."
I'm guessing you're referring to video calls in general, in which case, yes: With terrible handsets and expensive carriers - and in nearly all cases, both people had to be on the same network to be in a video call. Unless the network and their handsets are absolutely huge, the chances you'd actually get to make a video call to someone would be extremely low.
Hutchinson 3G, for example - I'm surprised they're even still in business. They've been around (in the UK at least) for 7 or so years but their entire network is overpriced and useless.
It's another case of these things having existed forever in various forms, but once again, it requires Apple to unify it and get it out to everyone. You may disagree with this - but think about it: When was the last time you actually saw someone take a video call on their phone? (and not a Skype or other video chat - but an actual phone-like video call)
I don't think I have
ever seen a person take a video call. Why? Because the tech has existed, but it has been isolated to a few select (and typically greedy) networks (who use video calls as their primary feature - cough Hutchinson 3G). Apple, whilst not an innovator, is going to be a 'populiser' in this respect
(as they have been with many technologies but few give them credit for. Wi-fi, USB standard peripherals etc. They didn't invent these things but they brought them to a much wider market by putting them into a decent product.)
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