iChat
Hey,
I was wondering, do you think Apple will ever make iChat compatible with other messenger programs like MSN? When I switched from Windows I noticed the iChat icon on my dock, and before removing it thought to myself if I would ever be able to use it as my main messenger application instead of Microsoft's Messenger.
Being a recent switcher, all my friends use MSN, meaning if I were to use iChat it would be completey pointless.
What do you think? ... and do you use iChat?
I was wondering, do you think Apple will ever make iChat compatible with other messenger programs like MSN? When I switched from Windows I noticed the iChat icon on my dock, and before removing it thought to myself if I would ever be able to use it as my main messenger application instead of Microsoft's Messenger.
Being a recent switcher, all my friends use MSN, meaning if I were to use iChat it would be completey pointless.
What do you think? ... and do you use iChat?
Comments
There are more than a dozen proprietary systems that do not interoperate.
I would really love to use iChat and videoconferencing but i don't have any friends or family with a Mac.
It's actually the same with VOIP applications.
Let us hope that the French
Proprietary lock-in systems SUCK!!!!
[done ranting now.]
otherwise, I have been using Adium for many years since I was sick of iChat ass-backwardness
Also MSN for Mac works like crap at the end of the day, especially once you get into Adium...
www.adiumx.com
Supports everything.. but no video/audio
I use Skype for audio chat anyway...
So I could call normal telephones.
If apple could provide a service similar to Skypeout for the same price or less I would give them the money instead of Skype, and I would have one app instead of two. What could be better!
works great, 1 app, 2 windows, iChat buddioes and and MSN buddies
Its a bit fiddely to set up but works perfectly when done.
Its all done through this Jabber business!
Denver
www.mercury.to
Allows use of an iSight, but only as a webcam, not for full video conferencing, although I think this feature is in the test stages.