Anyone else out there having problems with AIM on iChat?

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 1:48 PM, R.A. Hettinga <rahshipwright.com> wrote:
> The last few days or so, possibly since the 10.5.7 upgrade, but I'm
> not sure, my copy of iChat has not been able to log in to AIM.
>
>
> So, anyone else have this problem?
>

I seem to be able to log in to AIM OK with iChat (although out of my
vast collection of a half-dozen "buddies" none are active, so I can't
be sure it is working). I installed 10.5.7 last evening.

  --John

On May 17, 2009, at 5:07 PM, John Baxter wrote:

> I seem to be able to log in to AIM OK

Me too, now. Very strange.

Thanks!

Cheers,
RAH

On May 17, 2009, at 10:48 PM, R.A. Hettinga wrote:

> I expect there are work-arounds here, we both have Skype for video,
> for instance, but I'd rather fix this if it's possible.


As a backup if you can't get iChat working, the latest beta of Skype
includes screen sharing. Oh, and IMO, Skype's video chat is much
better then iChat's--and I hate to say that, but it's true. My son and
I have done a lot of chatting recently, and we both agreed that Skype
was doing much better than iChat at video, so we switched to Skype for
that.
--

-Jon Glass

On May 18, 2009, at 6:14 AM, Jon Glass wrote:

> As a backup if you can't get iChat working, the latest beta of Skype
> includes screen sharing. Oh, and IMO, Skype's video chat is much
> better then iChat's--and I hate to say that, but it's true. My son and
> I have done a lot of chatting recently, and we both agreed that Skype
> was doing much better than iChat at video, so we switched to Skype for
> that.
> --
Consider also that Skype's screen sharing, as of a few days ago, is
cross-platform with respect to Windows. Skype just released a new
beta on Windows (the Mac beta with screen sharing has been out for a
few months). Anyway, I've tested it and it works quite well.

One wonders whether Apple should give up its effort with iChat, or
whether it already has. Notably there is no version for iPhone. If
I were Apple, I'd preload Skype on every platform and forget about
iChat. How does iChat expect to compete with a communications
platform that boasts 40 million users (or 400 million depending on how
you count them)?

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:12:58 -0700, Barton Hudson wrote:
> One wonders whether Apple should give up its effort with iChat, or
> whether it already has. Notably there is no version for iPhone.

I imagine that has more to do with AT&T and SMS revenue protection than it does the underlying AIM technologies and protocols.

--chuck

On Jun 4, 2009, at 3:23 AM, chuck goolsbee wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:12:58 -0700, Barton Hudson wrote:
>> One wonders whether Apple should give up its effort with iChat, or
>> whether it already has. Notably there is no version for iPhone.
>
> I imagine that has more to do with AT&T and SMS revenue protection
> than it does the underlying AIM technologies and protocols.

I hope apple so now plans to drop iCHat it is the one and only
messenger I can get a web cam to work with.

On 4-Jun-2009, at 15:39, Donald Bryant wrote:
> On Jun 4, 2009, at 3:23 AM, chuck goolsbee wrote:
>> On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:12:58 -0700, Barton Hudson wrote:
>>> One wonders whether Apple should give up its effort with iChat, or
>>> whether it already has. Notably there is no version for iPhone.
>>
>> I imagine that has more to do with AT&T and SMS revenue protection
>> than it does the underlying AIM technologies and protocols.
>
> I hope apple so now plans to drop iCHat it is the one and only
> messenger I can get a web cam to work with.

I still very much like iChat, though most of my "IM" is now on
twitter. Still, it works well, the screen sharing is brilliant, and I
find it a lot more stable that Adium or any of the other IM clients.
(iChat stays open for weeks without issue under 10.5)

On Jun 6, 2009, at 9:24 AM, LuKreme wrote:

> I still very much like iChat, though most of my "IM" is now on
> twitter. Still, it works well, the screen sharing is brilliant, and I
> find it a lot more stable that Adium or any of the other IM clients.
> (iChat stays open for weeks without issue under 10.5)


I used to say that, but for the past few weeks, whenever somebody
would try to initiate a chat with me, iChat would freeze, and I would
never even get the notification that somebody tried to text me. I
would have to force quit iChat to get it working again. In the end,
since I couldn't solve it, I switched to Adium. I'm not happy about
it, but I have no time to problem-solve it.
--

-Jon Glass

I've pretty much given up on iChat and replaced it with Skype. There have been too many occasions that iChat gave me an error, usually that my correspondent failed to answer, when at the same time Skype worked fine. iChat generally seems quite flakey.

On 6-Jun-2009, at 15:25, Peter Hinman wrote:
> I've pretty much given up on iChat and replaced it with Skype. There
> have been too many occasions that iChat gave me an error, usually
> that my correspondent failed to answer, when at the same time Skype
> worked fine. iChat generally seems quite flakey.

I find that Skype quite often has crashed without any notice. That is,
it LOOKS like it's up, but will not receive calls or messages. It
will notify you of an incoming call, but you can't click on "accept
call" because Skype is in Rainbow mode. The only way out is to force
quit it and relaunch it. This happens about once a week (I have Skype
up all the time as it's my 'landline' phone).

At 2:25 PM -0700 6/6/09, Peter Hinman wrote:
>iChat generally seems quite flakey.

No problems here with iChat on the public internet. I use Adium on
the intranet at work hitting a Jabber server, and I've had no
problems with it either. Both seem functional and reliable.

On 18/05/2009, at 6:48 AM, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
> The last few days or so, possibly since the 10.5.7 upgrade, but I'm
> not sure, my copy of iChat has not been able to log in to AIM.


I regularly run into problems logging in with ONE of my email based
accounts, but not the other and never with my .Mac address.

The main email based account appears to connect to the server, but it
doesn't show me any of my buddies as been online, nor can they seem
me... but my other iChat logins work fine.

This problem first started happening when I moved to Leopard about 12
months ago.

--
Nicholas Pyers (nicholasappleusers.org)
Founder, AppleUsers.org

http://www.appleusers.org/

On Jun 7, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Dan O'Donnell wrote:

> No problems here with iChat on the public internet. I use Adium on
> the intranet at work hitting a Jabber server, and I've had no
> problems with it either. Both seem functional and reliable.


You know iChat does Jabber, too? I say it in the off chance you don't
know. :-) I use(d) Jabber on iChat for Google Chat, which is simply
Jabber.
--

-Jon Glass

At 2:12 PM -0700 6/7/09, Jon Glass wrote:
>On Jun 7, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Dan O'Donnell wrote:
>
>>No problems here with iChat on the public internet. I use Adium on
>>the intranet at work hitting a Jabber server, and I've had no
>>problems with it either. Both seem functional and reliable.
>
>
>You know iChat does Jabber, too? I say it in the off chance you don't
>know. :-) I use(d) Jabber on iChat for Google Chat, which is simply
>Jabber.

Thanks, and yes I do know that iChat does Jabber. I use both for the
same reason I also use Eudora, Entourage, Mail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail
- to know how they work when I am asked the inevitable questions
about troubleshooting (by friends and family who know that's what I
do).