Re: iChat question

On 6/11/05 21:39, "Roger Merriman" wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I get a lot of resistance for suggesting AIM - a lot of people see anything
>>> to do with AOL as something to be avoided...
>>
>> More so than people suggesting MS?
>>
> aim may well be tarnised by aol's repuation for flinging files all over
> the windows box and genural fath with having to use the aol stuff, while
> msn messager is genurally there on a win box any way.

....and, rightly or wrongly, MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger is perceived by
many as being the 'official' Windows messaging client. For that reason
alone, a lot of people will use nothing else.

Just as a bit of totally ad-hoc research, I asked a few of my contacts about
this over the weekend - the consensus was they use MSN/Windows Messenger
because "everyone else does". Sounds to me like a textbook example of the
critical mass effect

I strongly suspect that Skype will wipe out many/most IM clients over the
next 12 months, especially in the transatlantic market. Each day I'm
getting one or two contacts moving across...

.

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