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Facetime or Line on Windows 10 Computer? Or Chromebook?

Dragonfly

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Anybody use Facetime or Line on their computer? Specifically Windows 10 computers?

I know these are designed more for smartphones, but I don't have one.

I do have a Windows 10 computer.
There's also a Chromebook in my house.

I have Skype, but I'm wondering if Facetime and/or Line is "better", "quicker", "easier" or .... ????

Anybody try these and have some insight as to their overall worth compared to Skype?

Thanks in advance. :mrgreen:
 
Dragonfly said:
Anybody use Facetime or Line on their computer? Specifically Windows 10 computers?

I know these are designed more for smartphones, but I don't have one.

I do have a Windows 10 computer.
There's also a Chromebook in my house.

I have Skype, but I'm wondering if Facetime and/or Line is "better", "quicker", "easier" or .... ????

Anybody try these and have some insight as to their overall worth compared to Skype?

Thanks in advance. :mrgreen:
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Facetime does not exist outside the Apple universe.

Line, never used it tbh. It is "Chinese" so I have stayed away from it.

I use Skype for my VOIP calling...and with the new Windows 10 version it is actually getting better.. not so much bloat.

However I am keen to use Googles new Duo system, which is cross platform and should be very simple to use. Sadly not had time to go much into it yet.
 
Summerwind said:
I need to run a few android apps on my puter, Win7 but evenso, I use an android emulator called BlueStacks. I wonder if there's an emulator for Apple OS or whether Facetime is available on Android where you could use Bluestacks.
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Yep. Bluestacks is part of it.
 
Dragonfly said:
Anybody use Facetime or Line on their computer? Specifically Windows 10 computers?

I know these are designed more for smartphones, but I don't have one.

I do have a Windows 10 computer.
There's also a Chromebook in my house.

I have Skype, but I'm wondering if Facetime and/or Line is "better", "quicker", "easier" or .... ????

Anybody try these and have some insight as to their overall worth compared to Skype?

Thanks in advance. :mrgreen:
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I started doing video chats when My daughter started college in 2001, it has improved greatly.
We used Skype, as well as yahoo messenger video chat, in the past.
At some point my Wife got us and each of the kids I-Pads,
From what I can tell Facetime is much more stable and has cleaner images, and sound.
 
Summerwind said:
~ I wonder if there's an emulator for Apple OS ~
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iOS emulators for PC have been around quite a while, usually used by games makers to test out iPad games. That way, you can probably run FaceTime too.
 
I got Line on my Ubuntu laptop.

It works.

:mrgreen:


So it's now a Chrome "app" that works within Chrome. So any laptop/desktop can use Line.

Sweet.
 
Recently I switched over to chromebook and miss facetime for video chat. I read from here facetime app is not available for chromebook yet. That's the case with most of the third-party apps, they are not compatible with chrome os. It seems the only option is to use Google Hangout. At least it's doable.
 
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