I will acquiesce to your usage with video chat software. My primary issue is with the misuse of the word when someone is just taking a picture, like they would with any camera (USB, P&S, DSLR, whatever). If you point the device at something and press a button to take a single picture, it is a "camera". "webcam" specifically denotes (and always has, imho) streaming video (or at least some facsimile thereof).