Google Talk barely whispers to Mac users
Google Talk barely whispers to Mac users is an article I found linked off JoyStiq that is essential a piss off rant by some mac junkie about Google Talk, because it's not supported on Macs, only on Windows. While the tirade of 'woe is me for I am a mac user and nothing is compatible even though I pretend my expensive computer was worth the money I spent' is not particularly new, nor do I wish to fight the holy wars on that issue any longer, it did have an interesting tidbit. Appearantly what mac users do is run an application which allows them to talk to people who use various protocols. There's many such examples, most of the people I know either use Gaim or Trillian, I don't know what the hell Mac users use, but the article talks about how annoying it is because some people use Yahoo, and some people use AIM, and some people are doubled across both.
Uh, what the hell? What happened to MSN in there? I mean, I know it's probably an abismal concept to use MSN if you're on a mac, but I don't know anyone who uses AIM (In fact the concept of talking on AIM makes me want to kill myself), I know a couple of people on Yahoo, but they're also on MSN. A lot of people used to use ICQ before MSN got better (Except I think AOL bought ICQ, so maybe it's the same thing as AIM now). Who are these people who don't use MSN? Is it just more prevalant in Ontario or something? Very weird.
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I thought Mac users could use it with iChat or whatever it's called...I know D's on my list and he only uses Macs...
i'm a mac user and i've got google set up on adium, which is the mac equivalent of (and of course much much better than) trillian.
IM programs are totally a regional thing. i think more people in the states use AIM than in canada.
it's only abysmal to use the MSN client on a mac. not the actual messenger service.
I use AIM; I used to use MSN but nobody in the US uses it despite its fantastic emoticon options :(
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