so the other person needs a mac and ichat av?
alrighty, i guess im completely clueless, so my question is:
so there is NO WAY to use video chatting/conferencing unless the other person has iChat AV and a mac? is there anyway around this at all? i was looking real forward to using iChat AV with my out of country friends.. but all of them use PCs...
thanks.
so there is NO WAY to use video chatting/conferencing unless the other person has iChat AV and a mac? is there anyway around this at all? i was looking real forward to using iChat AV with my out of country friends.. but all of them use PCs...
thanks.
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No, sadly, both users do indeed need iChat AV and a Mac with a 600MHz G3 or better.
-Snowster
Originally posted by hikohta
damn, this is most definately disappointing, that such an amazing technology with loads of potential is being limited by its platform. but regardless, thanks alot for the quick info guys!
er... the story of the macintosh!
It seems to me like a horrible move. Apple sells the system, they leverage HW and SW and if they started making all the neat Mac stuff PC, why the heck should anyone buy a mac?
By all means Apple should sell peripherals to the PC market, iPods and iSights, but they should only provide the Apps when it's in their best interest.
iTunes is a front end for the iTMS on the PC, so that's fine. iPod needs an interface, fine.
iSight doesn't need one so long as they make sure it works with popular chat systems and that iChat also works with those same systems (from the mac side)
Let me get this straight--you're upset that a BETA app introduced a month ago hasn't been written for OSX and Windows? It isn't enough to open-source the protocol so that others can use it--they should be spoon-fed the apps as well, and that should happen BEFORE it is out of beta on the standard platform.
You have unrealistic expectations--and someone will write a compatible PC app for video conferencing before long.
It will be useless unless it connects mac users to the windows world. Apple knows this. But that is a differnt question than making iChat AV work on windows.
Originally posted by norfa
To me the disqappointment is that it won't run on my 500 mhz iBook. I'm hardly going to buy a new machine just to run this app. ANd it's all of 1.5 years old. I'm at least a year away from a new laptop.
well you can still USE the app, just not the V part of it... and I'm sure there will be a "hack" to allow you to at least try to see how well it would run on a 500 G3....
No, it's a function of it being NEW and no one having yet written a PC app that uses its protocols. They're open--people will come, or they won't, but it's a bit EARLY for bitching.
Originally posted by mrmister
"the lack of integration with non-iChat systems is not a function of the beta"
No, it's a function of it being NEW and no one having yet written a PC app that uses its protocols. They're open--people will come, or they won't, but it's a bit EARLY for bitching.
Dude, AIM has had voice over IP for like 2 years!
Great. Maybe AIM will eventually interact with iChat then...but I wouldn't expect that BEFORE the beta is finished testing.
Originally posted by mrmister
"Dude, AIM has had voice over IP for like 2 years!"
Great. Maybe AIM will eventually interact with iChat then...but I wouldn't expect that BEFORE the beta is finished testing.
You're missing the point completely. Since iChat uses the AIM network for text IMs, it would seem logical that iChat should also use it for voice messages. But doesn't, and there's no indication at all that it will in the future, hence the complaints. But I'd love for you to be right. Really, I would.
Originally posted by agent302
But doesn't, and there's no indication at all that it will in the future, hence the complaints.
Perhaps AIM will switch to the protocol Apple is using.
Originally posted by JLL
Perhaps AIM will switch to the protocol Apple is using.
Perhaps, but there are a lot more AIM users out there than there are iChat users. Inertia's a powerful thing.