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Member since:2005-06-28
Member since:2006-01-17
Some people should think before they open their mouths.
Apple's iChat is integrated with one of the largest IM networks in the world. Last time I checked more people use AIM and ICQ than use Google's chat program.
Granted maps and the searching but Apple has video and television content on iTunes. Honestly I'd rather pass the hour watching Jericho than watching some fat idiot make a fool of himself on YouTube. Didn't Google already have a video service? They had to buy to get something worth having because multimedia isn't as easy as it looks.
Apple also supports a large mail network, .mac, with some several hundreds of thousands of PAYING users. A different model than Google's ad driven systems but even so it is a large and capable network.
The .mac based services would integrate exceptionally well with a phone. Google are UI noobs to be quite frank. They've done a few good things but Apple has decades of experience with the best UIs in the market.
Member since:2005-07-06
Some people should think before they open their mouths.
Last time I checked more people use AIM and ICQ than use Google's chat program.
Thing is, these days there are _very_ meny people who just don't care what is the network/protocol behind their IM software, since they use IM clients which can connect to some, more or all of the existing IM networks (a lot of quality clientes exist for this purpose, for a lot of OSes). The number of users thus doesn't really show real preference, it mostly shows how many AOL users there have been, and how many other people just registered a nick to be present on the network to be accessible by these people who just wouldn't want to use another.
Didn't Google already have a video service?
Yupp. But how exactly do you think they were similar ? Because they both made videos accessible ? Well, I guess that was it and nothing more. Besides, Google most certainly didn't buy YouTube because of the service - they have bright enough coders - but because of the userbase. Which makes sense, given.
Member since:2005-10-11
Member since:2005-10-31
Apple's iChat is integrated with one of the largest IM networks in the world. Last time I checked more people use AIM and ICQ than use Google's chat program.
Google Talk's protocol is nothing more than Jabber, which is an open standard for communications. If that wasn't enough, there are tons of jabber servers out there that offer transport services to other chat services like IRC, MSN, AIM, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, etc... So in the end it is obvious that whoever accesses Google Talk is capable of accessing more IM networks than whoever uses iChat.
Some people should think before they open their mouths.
Indeed and, although your ignorance kept you from geting it, your post is a very good example of that. Therefore, please at least try to follow your own advices in the future
Member since:2005-07-15
Member since:2005-07-06
Apple's iChat is integrated with one of the largest IM networks in the world. Last time I checked more people use AIM and ICQ than use Google's chat program.
I would bloody well hope so! ICQ has been around forever and AIM has been around since at least '98/99. And until recently, the only way to sign up for Google chat was to get an invite from an existing gmail user (although now I believe they will send the invitation codes to a cell # as a text message).
Member since:2006-08-13
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2005-11-05
This makes more sense than Apple bringing out a phone. Google have so much more value to add to the mobile experience than Apple do: maps, search, youtube, mail, chat, docs, collab...whereas Apple have iTunes and ?