The three companies - Yahoo, AOL, and MSN - are the 800-pound gorillas of the internet. In their minds, it's a life or death struggle, and every bit of exclusivity provides an edge, no matter how slight.
Yahoo abandoning YIM for Jabber is about as likely as Apple abandoning the Mac OS in favor of Linux... ;-) - m -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David 'TheRaven' Chisnall Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 4:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JDEV] yahoo issues anyone? Perhaps I should have qualified the last post with 'Your milage may vary', but I stand by what I said. Y! is still a small network next to MSN and AIM, and can't hope to compete without either a killer application, or allowing interoperability. Embracing Jabber might give them the commercial edge they need. Instead, they try to block it. Was common sense outlawed while I wasn't looking? Marc Blank wrote: >I am working on a Jabber client for the Handspring Treo 300 and ALL of >my alpha testers (from different geographical areas, walks of life, >etc.) use Y messenger. FYI. > >- Marc > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of >David 'TheRaven' Chisnall >Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 8:52 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [JDEV] yahoo issues anyone? > > >What is wrong with Y!? I haven't bothered installing the Y!-t on my >server because: >a) I don't know anyone who uses Y! >b) No one who uses my server has told me (and I have asked quite a few) >that they know anyone who uses Y! >An IM network only survives because people can use it to talk to their >friends. Since Y! has sucha a small user base, the only way they can >compete is by interoperability. This makes no sense. Still, I suppose >if they had sense, they'd be using Jabber :) > > > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
