{"id":522342,"date":"2010-04-09T12:29:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T16:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=29171"},"modified":"2010-04-09T12:29:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T16:29:14","slug":"ichat-coming-to-iphone-os-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522342","title":{"rendered":"iChat coming to iPhone OS 4.0?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29176\" title=\"ichatiphoneactmonitor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ichatiphoneactmonitor.jpg\" alt=\"iChatAgent\" width=\"560\" height=\"391\" \/><br \/>\nHey now now, what&#8217;s this? On top of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/02\/24\/future-ipads-to-have-front-facing-cameras-flash-bulbs-not-software\/\">previously discovered<\/a> references to front-facing cameras and iChat within the iPad SDK, evidence is now appearing that suggests iChat &#8212; likely with video conferencing &#8212; will make its way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/04\/08\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-iphone-os-4-0\/\">iPhone OS 4.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshots over at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2010\/04\/08\/ichatagent-process-shows-up-in-iphone-os-4-0-video-conferenci\/\">TUAW<\/a> show that iChatAgent &#8212; a background process in OS X that&#8217;s responsible for keeping iChat happy &#8212; is running as a service on iPhone OS 4.0. Now, iChat doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean <em>video<\/em> chat, but with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2010\/02\/23\/ipad-sdk-support-for-front-facing-camera-camera-flash-zoom-and-video-conferencing\/\">support for video conferencing likely<\/a> on future revisions of the iPad, it isn&#8217;t too big a stretch of the imagination to have it on the next iPhone, too.<\/p>\n<p>A front-facing camera is an oft-requested feature for the iPhone, and with Android devices becoming more powerful and more prolific (hello,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/23\/the-htc-evo-4g-is-sprints-first-4g-superphone\/\">EVO 4G!<\/a>), expect Apple to do all it can to show up the competition with some hot hardware this Summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Avt-knTroQGMbsvI7CaiJ1fJB2A\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Avt-knTroQGMbsvI7CaiJ1fJB2A\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Avt-knTroQGMbsvI7CaiJ1fJB2A\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Avt-knTroQGMbsvI7CaiJ1fJB2A\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=cJOJH1nNlt4:qxWS9rvgMLw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=cJOJH1nNlt4:qxWS9rvgMLw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=cJOJH1nNlt4:qxWS9rvgMLw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=cJOJH1nNlt4:qxWS9rvgMLw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=cJOJH1nNlt4:qxWS9rvgMLw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey now now, what&#8217;s this? On top of the previously discovered references to front-facing cameras and iChat within the iPad SDK, evidence is now appearing that suggests iChat &#8212; likely with video conferencing &#8212; will make its way to iPhone OS 4.0. Screenshots over at\u00a0TUAW show that iChatAgent &#8212; a background process in OS X [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}