Is't facetime pretty must a standard softphone (eg: sip/srtp) using h264? i wonder if it's only "closed" due to authentication concerns there's not much else to "open up" that's not already
Makes sense, it seems like a great way to inject ads coupled with facebooks profile information it's likely a goldmine
You start a campaign and suddenly you have people inserting meme-like-ads feature your content into their chat threads
It'll have a personal and convincing touch ( esp. with facebooks ad targeting) it's going to be amazing for our industry reaching customers, Pepe/Trump memes did win an election afterall
Also a great way to get ads into whatsapp messages without seeming intrusive
It's funny, when I was a teenager I delivered Pizzas for a small local chain.
I'm pretty sure I made more money and service was faster; the delivery fees would a lot cheaper (though hard to mentally adjust with inflation in mind though)
Like I'd just relax at the restaurant, chat with the other drivers/cooks/servers until 3-4 orders were up and head out.. it was pretty nice
Now instead of things being mostly locally owned it's all consolidated, impersonal (I got to know the managers, the owner, other workers, slower and much more expensive.
prices are also so high I can barely leave a 'great' tip
it's hard for me to think of the most of these delivery companies as anything but vultures that just ended up injecting themselves into a business and reduce the quality of some folks working lives
a big part of me wouldn't mind some economic upheaval just to undo our mistakes