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Skype 5 for Mac Exits Beta, Group Video Calling Now Premium Feature
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It's largely an Apple thing. MSN is disturbingly popular outside of the United States as well. Otherwise many of the other AIM users I encounter are from pre-2001.
question...
why does skype limits the video chat and why does one needs to pay to have group video chat?
as i recall, and correct me if i'm wrong, my internet connection is the one who stresses out with it and not their program.
if they want skype to be a paid service just say so because i'll gladly remove it from my system.
why does skype limits the video chat and why does one needs to pay to have group video chat?
as i recall, and correct me if i'm wrong, my internet connection is the one who stresses out with it and not their program.
if they want skype to be a paid service just say so because i'll gladly remove it from my system.
Exactly, AIM and iChat are largely just a US thing. I gave up trying to get people to use it years ago - everyone just uses MSN here. I still use msn every day but haven't launched iChat in about five years. I use Skype once in a blue moon but still like to have it open. A couple of years ago I went the whole hog with a physical handset for Skype, a Skype-In number etc but even with 10mbit+ broadband I still felt that Skype-to-landline/mobile calls were a poor experience with noticeable delays that made conversations feel very un-natural particularly when calling Germany from the UK which was the whole purpose of it for me in the first place.
Edit: I just realised why the new Skype app is so rubbish on a Mac - it looks and feels like an iPad app forced to run in a window on a Mac.
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unfortunate
its very unfortunate that ichat does not play well with other chat clients that use video chat. Unfortunately my retarded relatives insist on buying windows pc's. its the only thing keeping me from using it. it is however the one feature that skype got right. Cross platform video calling without issues of any kind.
*problem i had with google was quality was garbage
*aim always has issues audio or video incompatibilities and my family can't seem to make it work. (most likely because they are simple..the family not the client)
*msn... doesn't work with iChat
and the most frustrating is facetime. should have been incorporated right into iChat. I don't want to have to run more than one video chat client.
its very unfortunate that ichat does not play well with other chat clients that use video chat. Unfortunately my retarded relatives insist on buying windows pc's. its the only thing keeping me from using it. it is however the one feature that skype got right. Cross platform video calling without issues of any kind.
*problem i had with google was quality was garbage
*aim always has issues audio or video incompatibilities and my family can't seem to make it work. (most likely because they are simple..the family not the client)
*msn... doesn't work with iChat
and the most frustrating is facetime. should have been incorporated right into iChat. I don't want to have to run more than one video chat client.
OMG
What have they done with the UI!?!?!?!
Can't I have just a small narrow window with a list of all my contacts?
If not I think I am sticking with V2.8...
I know what you mean! I downloaded the beta on one of my MBP's and it is silly how much space it takes. The UI on version 2.8 was far better. I'll keep that version on my other machines.
But you don't need to run it, it launches itself when you get a call. Also it's much lighter than iChat.
boo! for having to pay for group video calling!
It's amazing that so many people want everything for free - do you think the people employed by skype work for free? Do you think the massive server infrastructure is for free?
Get real people - good products/features/... cost money. This is because of development time and maintaining the infrastructure. Not every company charging money for a service is greedy.
It's not the company being greedy - its you being cheap.
It's simply what happens when people interact. Different perspectives, different opinions....
LOL - iChat does not run on every platform.
Honestly: why should none mac users care?
If someone managed to hack your account, wouldn't they also be able to enable auto-recharge even if you had turned it off?
No screen big enough
I run two 24" monitors and I still find it's too big - I have to dedicate about half a screen to it. The release version is definitely denser than the dismal beta, but the chat view hasn't really got any smaller, though it could be that I installed a different style sheet for the chat window (it's a WebKit view). Other peeves:
I run two 24" monitors and I still find it's too big - I have to dedicate about half a screen to it. The release version is definitely denser than the dismal beta, but the chat view hasn't really got any smaller, though it could be that I installed a different style sheet for the chat window (it's a WebKit view). Other peeves:
- The UI is really confusing - I'm forever hanging up a call instead of turning video off, or flipping to a paused call.
- The controls are never visible when I want them to be.
- I can't view a decent size chat window at the same time as a video chat.
- It's no longer possible to screen share just a selection - so when I share a whole 1920x1200 monitor to a MacBook, it's just unreadable.
- The list of participants in a group chat is just a joke - 2.8's disclosure triangles were way better for that.
- It's constantly reordering my chats (I usually have ~30 or so open) so I'm always losing them.
- It mixes up chats with call history, pushing important things out of view.
- Reminders (e.g. birthdays it gets from Address book) look like incoming calls! 2.8 was neat and tidy for this.
- I can't spare the space for the irritating contacts floater, so despite having a huge window, I can't see who's online.
- I'm really not interested in group video. If I need it, I'll use iChat.
- The one feature I'd be interested in shows no sign of being done - being able to log into to multiple skype accounts at once, e.g. home and work.