can't read sarcasm.
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Toronto, Canada
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Without the backing of a major "messenger" service, the appeal to buy Mac may be greatly affected. As good as iChat is, it's worthless without a chat service.
Yahoo has never been very Mac friendly...MS has been luke warm with AOL being the only Mac sanctioned service. However with MS possibly buying a stake in AOL, does Apple have a backup plan? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051107/.../aol_microsoft |
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Apple should hook up with Google and create the best and most full-featured messenger ever.
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is the next Chiquita
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Nice idea, but my impression is that Google always has been a lone wolf, and may want to remain that way...
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Well, they should continue to develop GoogleTalk as a Windows service as well, but any nod in the direction of Apple (a decent-functioning version) would sends swarms of the Mac faithful flocking to GT as their primary service. Google is very interested in market share as well.
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I'm using Adium. Its handles my Yahoo, AIM, and MSN accounts.
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Yarp
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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Join Date: May 2004
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Sure, but how will AOL drop support for iChat? Apple can use the same third party hooks that everyone else (Adium, Proteus, Trillian, etc.) uses.
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Join Date: May 2005
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I'd love to use iChat but almost all of my contacts are on MSN, so I only use AdiumX. AdiumX has support for Google Talk under Jabber. I'm not sure what the future will bring in terms of chatting on the Mac, but I can't imagine it becoming less useful or worse.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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You do realize that iChat support Jabber too, right?
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The Hoarding Packrat
Join Date: Oct 2005
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I have my GT account in iChat.
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Yarp
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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