[JDEV] iChat AV

[Ulrich B. Staudinger]

Yes, in my environment we have an eye on ichat. however the most 
important announcement was released yesterday, therefore we had no time 
to check the details. /afaik/ ichat does not have an official support 
for jabber.

ulrich


David 'TheRaven' Chisnall wrote:

> HAs anyone looked at iChat AV yet?  It claims to support open 
> standards for video and audio conferencing, and Steve Jobs indicated 
> that it should be able to interoperate with it.  This kind of 
> functionality looks really great, and it would be really nice if 
> Jabber could be used to set up this kind of conference with iChat AV 
> users as well as other Jabber users. 
> On a related note, Apple seems to be a fan of open standards, yet uses 
> AIM for their own IM app.  Has anyone from the JSF approached them 
> about using Jabber?  It would be quite a coup if a future version of 
> iChat used Jabber as the trasport.  A server running on mac.com could 
> authenticate against the existing users database, and communicate with 
> old versions of iChat and AIM users through a transport, while using 
> Jabber for everything else.  I doubt AOL would block a transport run 
> by a company like Apple... Seriously though, they are in an ideal 
> place to use Jabber, since they have an installed market share of IM 
> users, and they enjoy adding features to the top of the existing 
> protocol, making XMPP ideal for them. 
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