I still don't see why people are still clamoring for video conferencing. While other phones do have the feature, how many people do you know have such a phone, or use it on a regular basis? Me personally? Not a single person in my contact list has a front facing camera on their phone.
Even if they did, for the time being it would only be a novelty at best. I would much rather send a video or pic to someone then call them, wait for them to pick up (if they do), hope there phone supports video calls, and hope that the network is working well in both of our locations. Take a video, send it, done.
On the iPad? Meh. It'll be fun the first time, "Can you see me?!? OHMIGOSH, like, this is sooooo cool! Hiiii. Yeah, this is great! How are you! ::make funny faces:: ::show off dog/cat/baby:: Bye!", and alright the second time, but after a few times everyone will resort back to their emails/calls/texts/whatever.
Is it the way of the future?
Probably. Is that future now? Nope. At least not in America. A land line would be faster and better and it, but that never picked up when pretty much the entire population had a phone. Now that it's switching to most people having mobile phones (and even canceling land lines) I don't see it suddenly becoming popular just because of Apple
