Hey everyone, every single day since I got my first Mac I've used iChat (which is now Messages) to video chat with friends, family, etc... It was super useful to do homework with friends and a bunch of other things.
In 10.9 it seems like Apple completely destroyed the program. I understand less people may use it now then years ago and Facetime is becoming more popular but did they have to REMOVE features and make certain things unusable?
Things I've noticed so far:
- iChat theater no longer exists, this means no sharing Powerpoints, pictures, videos, or anything with someone else on video chat. I found this super useful when trying to get an assignment done with friends. Or even casually sharing a new song with everyone...
- No option to record the video chat anymore (have a ton of old videos of funny memories shared with friends/family on iChat over the past few years)
- Effects completely just do not work, just a grey screen comes up
- When you share a picture from online through an IM it links the brower's cache file instead of just the picture like it did previously
- Audio chat GUI is completely screwed up, anytime more then 1 person is called into the chat, their names overlap and just looks like a mess
I just don't get why Apple removed features from a program that worked decently well...
In 10.9 it seems like Apple completely destroyed the program. I understand less people may use it now then years ago and Facetime is becoming more popular but did they have to REMOVE features and make certain things unusable?
Things I've noticed so far:
- iChat theater no longer exists, this means no sharing Powerpoints, pictures, videos, or anything with someone else on video chat. I found this super useful when trying to get an assignment done with friends. Or even casually sharing a new song with everyone...
- No option to record the video chat anymore (have a ton of old videos of funny memories shared with friends/family on iChat over the past few years)
- Effects completely just do not work, just a grey screen comes up
- When you share a picture from online through an IM it links the brower's cache file instead of just the picture like it did previously
- Audio chat GUI is completely screwed up, anytime more then 1 person is called into the chat, their names overlap and just looks like a mess
I just don't get why Apple removed features from a program that worked decently well...
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