On 9/28/10 10:51 AM, Jesse Thompson wrote:
> 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 Thompson
>>>>>
>>>>> traffic. 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.
Right. Which was referred to in the other examples in my message, which
included connections between
skype and iChat as well as voice/video between whatever someone was running on
their PC and iChat.
The overall point was the flexibility of iChat to interact with different
servers and clients.
>> 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.
Bad option. Then I have the added cost of paying $$ to Microsoft for the use of
their OS and for
future updates when I really don't want anything to do with it. An ordinary
mom&pop household would
have to pay a consultant to do the install and configuration as well. No point
in getting into
platform wars here. It is sufficient to say that I do not personally want
anything to do with
Microsoft. Your choices may vary, and that is alright.
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