Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install?

Re:Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install? by tx on Friday March 07, 2008 @07:12PM (#131644)

How did you get away with iChat? I don't know a single person on AIM account, everybody is either on Yahoo/MSN or even ICQ.

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Re:Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install? by rms on Friday March 07, 2008 @07:35PM (#131657)

Are you or your friends from outside of the USA? Seems like AIM is only really popular in the USA.

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Re:Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install? by tx on Tuesday March 11, 2008 @11:21AM (#134265)

Hm... some of them are (ICQ users), but the American portion of my contact list is split between Yahoo and MSN. For some of them those messengers are "corporate standard", i.e. everybody at work is running one of those two. Another sizeable group of corporate IM contacts is on Skype, and growing fast, due to the encryption I suppose. Frankly, I've never heard of AIM until I bought a Mac last month.

Am I on an island? :-)

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Re:Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install? by koolmoe on Saturday March 08, 2008 @07:36AM (#131920)

You can do GoogleTalk on iChat as a Jabber account.

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Re:Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install? by curi on Friday March 07, 2008 @07:26PM (#131654)

weird. i don't know anyone on yahoo. msn only warcraft III players. AIM everyone else.

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