• A large iPhone showing a Facetime call is projected before an audience.
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    In reality, video calls are made on devices - smartphones, laptops or desktop computers - that are used for other things, not just video calls.

    This image shows the first public video phone call with FaceTime, between Apple's Steve Jobs and Jony Ive, in 2010.

  • A large iPhone showing a Facetime call is projected before an audience.

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Image courtesy of Mathieu Thouvenin

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