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It's possible iChat will get this feature sometime in the future or that Qik for the iPhone will be able to use the front facing camera and offer that level of interoperability you're looking for. Who knows? It's a bit early to jump to conclusions I think.

> video chat that ONLY works with other iPhone 4 users...

Built on open formats and which they clearly said they were going to submit as an open protocol.

> Why would you not call it iChat and allow it to work with desktop-iChat?

because it's apparently not an IM application, and Skype will have to take care of that part.

> With Qik, any Android phone, or more important any phone period has the ability to communicate with other Qik users regardless of their phone.

Uh not really, unless they've fixed the 20s lag (each way). And it's not like Qik can't update their iPhone client. You know, the one which already exists.

Feel free to ignore my criticism's of Facetime. I feel completely ignorant.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/apples_biggest_news_vid...

Thanks for the heads up.

> "a lack luster multitasking architechture"

What's lackluster about it? I'm been working with SDK4 for a while now, and it seems remarkable to me. This is the only multitasking architecture out there where the user doesn't have to treat his phone like a device with processing/memory limits.

You don't have to treat Android phones like devices with memory limits either; the only things that run in the "background" are services that explicitly request the ability to run something in the background, and most apps don't do this. Please stop spreading FUD.