On 09/28/2010 10:36 AM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
On 9/28/10 10:51 AM, Jesse Thompson wrote: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.
Are you saying that iChat works with Skype voice/video? Or are you saying that iChat supports multiple IM protocols like Pidgin and the other multi-protocol clients?
At least you have the option of installing a Windows VM on your Mac.Bad option. Then I have the added cost of paying $$ to Microsoft for the use of their OS and for future updates when I really don't want anything to do with it. An ordinary mom&pop household would have to pay a consultant to do the install and configuration as well. No point in getting into platform wars here. It is sufficient to say that I do not personally want anything to do with Microsoft. Your choices may vary, and that is alright.
I didn't say it was a *good* option, but at least you have it. Conversely, you can't install an OSX VM on a Windows or Linux desktop (unless you are willing to shell out $$$ to Apple for the hardware,) so you can't use that as a workaround for using iChat as your Skype alternative.
Jesse
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