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Jeff Campbell
07-14-2010, 08:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://9to5mac.com/inflight_facetime?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+(9+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence)&utm_content=Google+Reader' target='_blank'>http://9to5mac.com/inflight_facetim...t=Google+Reader</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"This video shows you that Apple's FaceTime video chat works over in-flight Wi-Fi -- a huge deal to business travellers, we suspect."</em></p><p><object width="600" height="360" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/TMxvc8uO_Yw&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;ap=%26fmt=18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TMxvc8uO_Yw&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;ap=%26fmt=18" /></object></p><p>The quality isn't all that bad, but I wonder if more and more start using this if the airlines start restricting it due to bandwidth usage? I'm not all that familiar with in-flight internet access since I hardly ever fly but I'm curious about it, does anyone out there use it and if so, what do you think the odds are about restrictions in the future if this becomes widely used?</p>