On 09/28/2010 09:42 AM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
On 9/28/10 9:08 AM, Jesse Thompson wrote:On 09/24/2010 07:14 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jesse Thompsontraffic. The actual voice/video capabilities depend on the client or device. e.g. Psi and Pidgin now have rudamentary p2p voice capabilities. No client compares to Skype that I'm aware of.Oh dear. You haven't used iChat. It's enormously better than skype as a client. Only problem is the fact that it's Mac only.and that's a big problem. If the majority of your users can't run it, then it can immediately be ruled out.[I know I'm jumping in late and there has been plenty of discussion already. I have just one point/distinction.] On the other hand, a client is only a client. Any individual should be able to use whatever client works best for them on their platform as long as it interacts with others. I routinely use iChat to interact with a hardcore opensource guy who insists on using Jabber with whatever the opensource thing is that he uses as a client. The only problem I have is that his client drops connections somewhat frequently.
Right, but we were talking about voice/video chat.
Assuming that everyone has to use the same client comes a bit too close to the financial web sites that insist you have to be using IE and then program stuff directly to IE so that indeed I have to. But I can't. Microsoft has not supported IE on Mac for many years and has never supported it for Mac OS X. So, I'm stuck using the kiosk at my Bank if/when I absolutely have to. But that's not at all what internet banking is supposed to be. It sucks.
At least you have the option of installing a Windows VM on your Mac. Jesse
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