Comments on: Worst OS X Tiger Application Award

By: DistortedLoop

DistortedLoop — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:51:16 +0000

FYI - Yahoo Messenger 3.02 doesn’t work in Leopard’s latest beta. Crashes on open, every time.

By: Albert

Albert — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:48:06 +0000

To be honest, I think that iChat should just support SIP, as SIP would make things easier for all of us. Perhaps Apple could simply support WengoPhone, and help people join it?

By: Tommy

Tommy — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:40:10 +0000

@Jaryd - I think iChat could’ve been great. My point is more that if Apple ships an app, it should work out of the box. iChat will not work out of the box for most people. I don’t consider having to sign up for a Jabber account as “working out of the box”. I also think you are pretty much on a virtual chat island by yourself if you use iChat because you can only chat with Jabber, .Mac or AIM.

It will be interesting to see what improvements Apple makes to iChat when Leopard ships. Something has to be done to make it easier to integrate with other chat apps or people might as well just use something else, for instance as you indicated - gmail, or my current preference Skype.

By: Jaryd

Jaryd — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:26:43 +0000

I don’t think you covered the option to use a gmail account. While I can’t chat with MSN or Yahoo!, I could always just use MSN or Yahoo!. It’s like complaining when using MSN that I can’t chat with people on AIM. Well, of course not, it’s MSN. iChat can’t do everything, but I find the things it does do very well.