Hi Dave, You're correct, and I apologize - particularly as I paraphrased your comment along with your name, I should have done so less sloppily, and did indee dmisrepresent what you had said. My apologies.
What I meant (correctly, I think) is that HW is implying that closed instant messaging protocols will decrease in popularity, and while they may do so some day, I feel certain that Windows Live and Yahoo!'s protocols will go strong for many months to come. Regards, Grant Grant On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:34 PM, dave wilkinson <[email protected] > wrote: > > Dear Grant, > > In your post to the BrailleNote listsereve, you misrepresented what I > said. I said that more and more chat clients were using XMPP, and as > proof of that Greg Stillson cited AOL's discussions with Google. The > point wasn't that chat services are going away, it is that they are > starting to use more open platforms. > > Dave > > > > Dave Wilkinson > Western Region Blindness Product Specialist > 800-722-3393, ext. 241 > [email protected] > www.humanware.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grant Hardy > Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 8:04 PM > To: BrailleNote mailing list > Subject: [Braillenote] KeyChat Isn't Looking Too Pretty > > Hi all, > > In today's Tech Talk presentation on KeySoft 8, I emphasized the fact > that while nearly everyone on the University of British Columbia campus > with me carries around laptops and mobile devices with Windows Live > Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger, I know nobody who uses Google Talk, > iChat, or any other open instant messaging service. And with two other > notetaking products--the Braille Sense and the PAC Mate--supporting > Windows Live, I asked at what stage, if at all, the BrailleNote would > follow suit. In an evasive response, Dave Wilkinson from Humanware > implied that somehow Windows Live and Yahoo! were going to disintegrate, > so it really isn't necessary anyway. > Not true: the one and only reason neither Yahoo! nor Windows Live need > to use an open instant messaging standard is due to the sheer volume of > users who already populate their services. Rather than adapting to this > truth as other competing products have, the BrailleNote from Humanware > will change the way you communicate in realtime...if you can convince > everyone you know to switch instant mesaging clients. > > There is also no way to sign in invisibly (also called appearing > offline) in KeyChat. This is standard in all other messaging clients > that I have come across, and is a great way to see who's online without > getting flooded with instant messages. Greg Stilson from Humanware > discounted this and called it "kinda creepy", so apparently the > BrailleNote user base will not see this function, either. > > Normally I don't rant, but I am upset with the attitude of these > Humanware > representatives: instead of politely stating that these essential > features are not yet present in KeyChat, they instead discounted their > importance. > > So to summarize: communicate in real time with the 1 % of your friends > that KeyChat will support, and don't expect to be able to sign in > invisibly, cuz that's just kinda creepy! > > Grant > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the > list as well. > > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [email protected] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
