3/19/2024 0 Comments Instant messenger for macPeople like to malign this software because of the perceived "corporate" or Windows-centric persona of AOL and while this version does lack stuff like video conferencing, it is light years beyond the buggy 4.7 version of AIM that was released before this and, in reality, the feature set of this software easily surpasses Adium's AIM implementation. It's not perfect, but it does make an entirely passable alternative ICQ client. Another thing that this software does is allow you to login to your ICQ account - a beautiful feature considering that ICQ for Mac hasn't been updated in seven years. AIM for Mac also makes use of AIM Expressions which, until now, only worked on the PC side. Sure, you can login to Facebook chat using iChat's Jabber protocols, but it isn't nearly as pretty and you don't get AIM's jazzy new "LifeStream" deal which nicely integrates AIM status messages with the Facebook status messages. What iChat doesn't do, however, is merge the AIM and Facebook contacts as nicely as this. It is integrated better with the OS, it operates perfectly fine and, yeah, it has video. Honestly, if you're on a Mac and you have an AIM account, you're most likely going to use iChat to take care of that. Let's state the obvious, first: iChat has the market cornered for AIM videoconferencing.
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