Apple FaceTime vs Google Talk vs Microsoft Skype

The war has began among the Video Chat applications over Internet. The first company that introduce it is Apple that launched the FaceTime application for iPad. The new iOS 4.3 will be equipped with the FaceTime application in the iPhone 4, iPad 2, iPod 4, and Mac.



The second company is Google that launched the Google Talk with Video Chat for Android. The application will integrated with Android operating system since Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). All smartphones and tablets that operates with the operating system will be equipped with Google Talk with Video Chat.

The last company is Microsoft that acquired Skype last month. The biggest software company in the world has launched the new Windows Phone 7, code name "Mango", that will be equipped with Microsoft Skype. Skype is the oldest and maturest video chat that have millions of users, including 8 million monthly paid users.

Some companies are predicted to join this war soon. They are Yahoo Messenger by Yahoo, WebOS by HP, BlackBerry by RIM, and the new WhatsApp by Nokia.

The partnership between Microsoft and Nokia will make the users can choose between Microsoft Skype and Nokia WhatsApp applications. Both applications will be available for the some operating systems such as Android, Windows, iPhone, BlackBerry, and Nokia.

I think the competition in the Internet Video Call will make the direct Video Call application from handphone less used by the users because of the call price. They will prefer to use Video Call from Internet that offers flat price.