Throughout 2020, video calls have become commonplace in the daily lives of millions of people, both to maintain contact with friends and family and to continue working from home, at least among all those who have had the opportunity to do so without losing their job.
While Zoom is the platform that has grown the most throughout 2020, other platforms like Microsoft Teams, especially in the workplace. If we’re talking about Apple, video calls through FaceTime too they have increased a lot compared to previous years.
In addition, this Christmas, according to Tim Cook at the economic results conference for the last quarter of 2020, video calls via FaceTime between Apple users broke the previous recordNot surprisingly, the Cupertino-based company has over 1.6 billion active devices, of which 1 billion are iPhones.
A particularly successful Christmas for Apple, since it generated more than 111 billion in revenue for the sale of the various products currently available on the market, being the category of portable devices which has progressed the most with an increase of 31%, although, once again, it is the iPhone which once again took the lead. car.
Video call via FaceTime
Apple FaceTime video calling service allows us to add up to 32 parts. Unlike other services where all parties are displayed at the same size, FaceTime automatically expands the mosaic dataset of the person speaking at that time, reducing the rest of the call participants.