[JDEV] JabberCentral [Was: Trillian Poll]

[Mattias Campe]

Rachel Blackman wrote:
[...]
> I understand the position, but I disagree.  Your average general IM user
> does not want to make an 'informed choice'.  They want to click on a link
> and download a client and have it be a fairly simple and mindless
> sign-up-and-get-online process.

Yes, but you still have _the_friends_of_ the general IM user (GIU), who 
are just a little bit more then general, more professional (PIU). How do 
people find their ways to the peer2peer file sharing toolS? You have 
Kazaa, iMesh, Napster,... They just:

GIU: Damn, iMesh crashes a lot :( What do you use to download movies?
PIU: I use Kazaa lite: http://... Just download and install :)
GIU: Great, thanks!

So, yes, I would say that the general IM user actually doesn't want to 
make a choice. That's why their choices are mostly made by sb. else 
(could be friends, could be a mailinglist, could be a forum, could be a 
magazine,...). At least, that's how it happes with my friends: I mostly 
make their choices ;)...

just my 2 cents,
Mattias