This iPhone OS event is turning out to be a lot less boring than expected. Apple has just announced the next major new API for the iPhone, and it’s a doozy: VOIP.
Skype demoed the concept. Essentially, now, if you want to run a VOIP program on your iPhone, it doesn’t have to be open: it just runs in the background. Want to get incoming calls while you’re on your iPhone through Skype? It’s not a problem… they just pipe right on in, and can be answered at your leisure like a regular call… right down to the same default ring.
This is big, and something I don’t think anyone expected. It also shows some maturity on the part of Apple’s wireless partner, AT&T: it seems like they realized that data’s data, and it doesn’t much matter how you make your call, as long as you pay them.