Asking Apple why FaceTime FINALLY came to Android

what's going on guys it's your average consumer today we've got a very special video apple just had their wwdc event where they announced a ton of stuff but i think what caught the attention of most people is all the new stuff coming to facetime so i was lucky enough to get a little time with craig federighi the senior vice president of software engineering over at apple you know the guy in all of the keynotes we spent a little bit of time talking and of course i had to ask the burning question how did we end up getting facetime on android and other platforms through the browser but why are we seeing this now so of course i had to ask the man himself and check it out he got some pretty cool answers hello hey craig how's it going it is going all right it's a exciting time of the year for for those of us in software i'm sure you guys have to be super busy with everything you announced it's it's yeah it's it's crazy busy getting ready for uh wwdc and then it's it's crazy busy during wwdc so um but but exciting time of year to finally take all that stuff that's been a secret and finally being able to talk about it with everyone and show it with our friends and family and so it's it's great of course of course now you guys announced a ton of great stuff but i gotta say what really caught my attention has to be facetime you guys blew me blew me away with how many things you announced for facetime uh but what really caught my attention was facetime links yeah so with facetime links i'm really curious on your take what caused apple to want to branch out to i guess like different operating systems allowing facetime to be available in in some capacity on platforms that you don't typically see uh you know apple software right well you know i i think a lot of how we think about building products is uh about what we all want for ourselves and i think and because we think you know we're apple users and apple fans too right that's that's why we're here really right and we certainly found ourselves during especially this period doing those kinds of get-togethers with friends and family and you know very often there was someone in in a large group who maybe didn't have an apple device you know and you you don't want to shut them out of the party uh and uh and yet we didn't want to have to go use something other than uh than facetime and so we thought you know as an apple customer what do you want well you you do want to be able to pull in all your friends or all your family members into it and you know web technologies in terms of what the browser was capable of for video conferencing had gotten to the point where the building blocks were there finally where we could build an end-to-end encrypted facetime client that could run in the browser and that the common phones and windows pcs could support so finally we had we had what we needed to uh to do it and i felt like it was the the perfect thing to kind of cap off what what we were broadly doing around improving the the facetime experience and trying to bring everyone uh together all right oh yeah i can definitely see how the events of like you know the past year can really influence these new changes and you know just allowing for more to happen with like you know the current software so i mean it's cool to see that evolution so i i'm i think everybody's kind of stoked for it um but how has apple's philosophy overall because i noticed with like you know little things like airplay becoming more available on other platforms and now you know we're getting a little bit of face time how has like the philosophy changed around that or is it like more of a you know case-by-case basis that you're seeing a need for new platforms yeah i i don't i don't think there's really been a philosophical shift as much as certain kinds of things you know you think about usb you know you could plug any keyboard any mouse because there was a standard for that kind of connectivity and you'd expect that right i should be able to buy any mouse or keyboard i want and use it with my with my mac and so when it came to things like getting video wirelessly from your iphone to a television well it's no longer about a cord uh it's it's about some kind of wireless uh protocol and so in that case we we wanted to create the virtual cord in the form of airplay and get it get it out there so you could do that kind of thing with with your phone or with you know we do integration with audio to all kinds of different speakers um that we can we can orchestrate with third parties and again it's taking what where there were standards in the wired world and making sure that you still had those options to connect and so i think i think when it comes to connectivity um we look at it from the perspective of what what do our customers uh really want to connect to and and that enriches their their experience with their with their iphone or with their ipad or with their mac and and we want to make that possible well that's i mean i think it's been really cool that you guys have been focusing it feels like you guys have been focusing so much more on just like what the end user like that's always been apple's thing the end user's experience but it almost feels like there's this sense of apple's really listening now or it's it's interesting because i i you know apple's always been about the user experience that's that's why app it is what it is but there's this new sense of like you know apple's really thinking about what we want and providing it so i think that's it's all awesome stuff oh that's that's great i mean i i do think we're we're all passionate apple enthusiasts ourselves and so we've we've always been trying to build the things that uh that we felt we we wanted and i think you know a lot of different threads kind of came together this year that made it possible to to pull together what what what we did and i'm i'm super excited to hear it's resonating with you because it certainly is with us absolutely absolutely so thank you for answering that i really oh sure i do have one little question though okay so i'm always interested in you know people with important roles what their like daily routine is especially like their morning routine how they get their day started do you happen to have like any siri shortcuts that you use in the morning you know my my primary thing uh is uh well i i often i wake up when i you know outside my control and i often try to tranquilize myself with a with a podcast in the morning and try to try to rest a little bit um my main automation is actually about like coming home you know i have a lot a lot of home kit stuff and so as i as i approach the home my my uh automation is called open sesame so as i approach the home i get a little open sesame and i like that you know the home prepares itself for uh for me to arrive so that's that's my my bit of my bit of automation but i could probably up my game if you have any any suggestions for some early morning shortcuts yeah yeah absolutely absolutely craig i definitely appreciate your time man thank you so much yeah great to talk to you hope we can do it in person sometime of course of course man take care thank you see you bye bye so there you have it guys right from craig's mouth himself we are now seeing you know things like facetime come to all these different platforms because the the world's changing like browser security has been changed you know apple's really really huge about privacy and making sure everything is encrypted so that you don't have to worry about safety so it's really cool to see that browsers have now reached a point where apple feels confident enough in them to support facetime and have it be a safe connection i know i don't want anybody getting in on my facetime calls so i'm glad apple prioritized that and it kind of makes sense with the state of where we are today web conferencing is huge and i'm sure there's like a lot of progression in that field now if you have an apple device and you want to get on facetime with someone else you can send them a link and kind of make it happen now of course there were way more things that happened at wwdc if you guys missed my recap video i'll have it linked down below in the description but huge shout out to craig for jumping on the channel and spending some time with us hopefully you guys enjoy it hopefully this answered some questions because i'm sure a lot of people were like what's apple doing these days but till next video guys your average consumer peace

Channel: UrAvgConsumer

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Keywords: uravgconsumer, uac, your average consumer, apple, facetime, facetime on android, facetime update, craig federighi, craig federighi interview, iphone, wwdc21, wwdc, ios 15, tech, news, ipados 15, macos monterey, technology

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Length: 8min 34sec (514 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 10 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/OriginalPantherDan]

Every smart device I have (and the number is close to 40 now) is HomeKit, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. The only exceptions are my Ring cameras, and I’m still peeved that they never made good on their HomeKit promise. Thinking of giving Homebridge a try just for this.

[u/tgji]

He certainly should be using HomeKit! Though he is probably quite wealthy and might have a home with a pre-installed system (like Creston or something). I just assume that about wealthy people... but Craig seems genuinely passionate about Apples software (I mean, he is in charge of it), so perhaps he uses HomeKit a bit with certain accessories just to test stuff out.

I'm just skeptical that this means anything... though I really hope it does! I want more HomeKit!

[u/chemicalsam]

I would fucking hope so