Phoenix said:
That may have more to do with your local connectivity. I have never had any of the servers crap out on me regularly at all. Nevertheless you're confusing protocol with server capacity. The protocol describes what clients which use that protocol are capable of doing. AIM and MSN are much richer protocols (have a larger vocabulary) than XMPP.
GTalk is nothing more than Jabber XMPP servers hosted at Google - not a feature more.
Well, like I said, considering it's in beta and more features keep being added to it, GTalk has the capacity to have just as rich of a feature set as MSN and Yahoo... how it gets there is largely irrelevant to me. And one could argue that MSN's protocols are too proprietary to make claims as to their richness... having to use the utterly BROKEN aMSN just to do webcam on a Mac using the MSN protocol is NOT an ideal situation. And as I said, I get communication errors with MSN and AIM all the time... and despite your assertation to the contrary, it occurs on multiple computers with different internet connection methods, the device and software used to interact with the protocols is largely irrelevant.
Simply put, I want iChat to work as smoothly as the rest of my Mac, and AIM servers and protocols are preventing that in my experience.
Now that the thread has been derailed with a simple commentary on .Mac and iChat being borked.... I'm really kinda hoping for the use of Illuminous in 10.5. Aqua is getting a bit rough around the edges after so many years.