Cy Starkman is right on the spot in a comment of RoughlyDrafted Magazine:
“Even MacBooks et al have the camera placed wrong. You either look at the camera or the person, ultimately everyone looks at the person and appears to be looking down.
It’s useless. Camera phones included. If anything else this is why it hasn’t taken off.
I personally never used the camera on any Mac even though I bought iGlasses for it, except for a brief test.
I don’t like to feel stupid and look at people looking stupid! And that’s what you get when you use these cameras with that wrong angle…
And I guess most people are like me on this. It will take off only when it will be done right!
Then again there is the Apple patent about a camera mounted in the screen. Now that will be a revolution in video conferencing finally you can look at the person and they see you looking st them, eye contact.. Who’d have thunk it eh..
and personally I would not expect to see any front facing cameras on iPhones, iPads etc until the Apple engineers figure out the final bits of that puzzle (…).
Simple really”
That’s it!
