{"id":7765,"date":"2013-09-04T13:22:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T18:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7765"},"modified":"2013-09-04T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T18:22:07","slug":"after-patent-loss-apple-makes-facetime-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/04\/after-patent-loss-apple-makes-facetime-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"After Patent Loss, Apple Makes FaceTime Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/08\/report-after-patent-loss-apple-tweaks-facetime-and-logs-500000-complaints\/\">Joe Mullin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/08\/report-after-patent-loss-apple-tweaks-facetime-and-logs-500000-complaints\/\"><p>Both sides in the litigation admit that if Apple routes its FaceTime calls through relay servers, it will avoid infringing the VirnetX patents. Once Apple was found to be infringing&mdash;and realized it could end up paying an ongoing royalty for using FaceTime&mdash;the company redesigned the system so that <em>all<\/em> FaceTime calls would rely on relay servers. Lease believes the switch happened in April.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>At trial, Apple engineer Patrick Gates testified about how FaceTime works. He downplayed the impact that changing the system would have on FaceTime quality&mdash;presumably to show how unimportant the VirnetX patents were.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But since the switch to relays, call quality has apparently degraded, though the article only cites the number of complaints since April.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Mullin: Both sides in the litigation admit that if Apple routes its FaceTime calls through relay servers, it will avoid infringing the VirnetX patents. Once Apple was found to be infringing&mdash;and realized it could end up paying an ongoing royalty for using FaceTime&mdash;the company redesigned the system so that all FaceTime calls would rely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,558,40],"class_list":["post-7765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-facetime","tag-patents"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}