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in 2007 when we launched the iPhone was my privilege to make the first public call on stage to one of my best friends in the whole world Johnny I've the head of our design team and I'd like to do the same on this occasion so I'm gonna go ahead and call Johnny now hey Johnny hey Johnny how you doing I'm good I'm good hey you so we call this FaceTime FaceTime video calling and it's it's great it's iPhone for two I phone for any where there is Wi-Fi and there is no setup required you don't have to find a server you don't have to type in anything you don't need a special code you don't need a buddy list nothing you just make a phone call you can use the front or the rear camera you can switch to the rear camera so the person on the other end can see what you're seeing you just switch back and forth real easy portrait or landscape you turn your phone it automatically does the right thing on the other side so if you have two people wanting to talk to somebody you just go into landscape and get a little bit wider aspect ratio and the video and the audio quality is great now FaceTime is going to be Wi-Fi only in 2010 you need to work a little bit with the cellular providers get ready for the future so where Wi-Fi only in 2010 and Apple will ship tens of millions of FaceTime devices this year tens of millions of FaceTime devices this calendar year so there's gonna be a lot of people to talk to now FaceTime is based on a lot of open standards h.264 video AAC audio and a bunch of alphabet soup acronyms and we're gonna take it all the way we're going to the standards bodies starting tomorrow and we're gonna make FaceTime an open industry standard Oh you