iChat Question

[Freis968]

I have only one person in my Buddy List on iChat, I am not much of a chatter anymore, and he has a .mac account. I entered him in with his name@mac.com and he shows up just fine. I have my .mac set as my iChat prefs and I deleted anything that I can find on my Mac that says AOL or AIM on it.

So, why is it saying AIM Buddy List at the top of my iChat window?

 

[Tallest Skil]

Because AIM is the iChat protocol.

Chax allows you to have just a "Contacts" window, consolidating everything if it bothers you that much.

 

[Freis968]

So, when everyone fires up their iChat it says AIM buddy list at the top of it?

Curious, because according to Wikipedia, it says that iChat is a proprietary program. So, does that mean that Apple created iChat but that is runs with the AIM chat engine?

 

[miles01110]

So, when everyone fires up their iChat it says AIM buddy list at the top of it?

Yes.

Curious, because according to Wikipedia, it says that iChat is a proprietary program. So, does that mean that Apple created iChat but that is runs with the AIM chat engine?

It means that iChat is a means of accessing the AIM chat protocol. iChat was created by Apple.