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Audio/Video Conference with iChat and AIM

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the beginning-of-the-end-of-the-analog-phones? dept.

JHromadka writes "Apple and AOL released today new versions of their instant messaging software that allows audio and video conferencing between Mac iChat users and Windows AIM users. " Anyone else think we're nearing the end of the analog phone system?

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  1. AOL Users by nick_davison · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone else think we're nearing the end of the analog phone system?

    No. This market segment probably never used telephones anyway. AOL users just drooled in bland confusion at their complicated number pads, while Mac users couldn't understand why the peripheral had more than one button.

  2. phones by flynt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone else think we're nearing the end of the analog phone system?

    If I remember Taco, you're still on dial-up, so we better not be nearing the end, for your sake.

    1. Re:phones by The+Ancients · · Score: 2, Funny
      If I remember Taco, you're still on dial-up, so we better not be nearing the end, for your sake.

      What about for our sake?

      ..k

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      The Mothership
  3. 911? by Beatbyte · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nope. Why?

    Guy A : "OMG I just cut off my leg! Call 911!"
    Guy B : "Can't man the latest Windows worm is destroying the 'net"
    Guy A : "Oh ok I'll wait.

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    1. Re:911? by sryx · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well if you put Windows in the mix it might sound like this.

      Guy A: "OMG I just cut off my leg! Call 911!"
      Guy B: "Ok ok one sec, I got to boot up Windows!"
      Guy A: "Oh the pain the pain!!!"
      Guy B: "Man chill out, Windows is still booting, because I'm to cheap to own a land line or a cell phone I'm also too cheap to get a fast computer"
      Guy A: "I think I can see a light down a dark tunnel"
      Guy B: "Ok Windows is up, now lets see..."
      Clippy: "I noticed you are bleading to death, would you like help?"
      Guy A: "I'm so sorry I never gave enough to the poor, God, please forgive me, my life has been meaningless, I just want to know you before I die"
      Guy B: "Woah, slow down there Guy A, I'm trying to call 911, Just need to get Clippy to leave me alone"
      Clippy: "I noticed you are trying to atone for you sins before you blead to death, would you like help?"
      Guy B: "Well, would you like help with your atonment?"
      Guy A:...
      Guy B: "Crap, I need a faster PC"
      Clippy: "I noticed that you have a dead friend in your living room, would you like me to despose of the body?"

      -Jason

    2. Re:911? by Beatbyte · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't forget you MUST activate your copy of MS-Voip otherwise you can just sit there and watch him die.

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    3. Re:911? by pyros · · Score: 2, Funny

      You got it all wrong.

      Guy A : "OMG I just cut off my leg! Call 911 !"
      Guy B : "No you didn't! It's just a flesh wound."

  4. Apple release iChat for Windows, world goes blind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't want to see half of the people I chat with... My poor world depends on coolgrl973 being the cute one in that picture!

  5. Long live analog by savagedome · · Score: 4, Funny

    we're nearing the end of the analog phone system?

    You can't slam down one of those messsage clients. Its more satisfying to slam down the phone after you get mad at someone !

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    1. Re:Long live analog by caller_number_six · · Score: 2, Funny

      more satisfying to slam down the phone after you get mad at someone !

      For the same reason, I can only use "flip" cell phones. Before I got my first one, the only way to hang up on anybody (with any degree of satisfaction) was to throw my phone across the cab of my truck at the end of each conversation.

      Actually, that system works fine in the winter, when the windows are rolled up, but...

  6. POTS has been declining for ages by GMontag · · Score: 0, Funny

    I knew the end was near when my Red and Blue Boxes stopped working.

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  7. Re:Apple release iChat for Windows, world goes bli by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't want to see half of the people I chat with...

    Oh come on, I bet you'd really like to see the lower half, you dirty thing you...

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  8. Re:Not likely the end... ever. by MacFury · · Score: 3, Funny
    about technologies that refuse to die? 100 years from now, analog phones will be on that list. iChat/AIM is great but my mother will never use it

    Is your mother likely to be around in 100 years?

  9. Re:Ya right by The+Ancients · · Score: 2, Funny
    What's a 'fax' machine? Is that like an online dictionary?

    ..k

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    The Mothership
  10. Then how we get out??? by MacFury · · Score: 1, Funny
    If analog phone lines are gotten rid of then how will we get out of the matrix???

    http://cafeshops.com/ruechaos

  11. Re:no end to analog by Mateito · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't you learn ANYTHING watching the A-Team? I recall almost every third episode they hacked a landline with a phone tap :)

    No. I learnt everything from McGuyver. I recall that in almost every third episode he escaped from an otherwise impossible position usinging a bathroom tap.*

    *along with two rubber bands, half a dozen paddle pop sticks and a pair of old bedsheets that suprisingly were never furnished with interesting stains.

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  12. ich trage nicht hosen by mac+os+ken · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every since this fancy schmancy video iChat came out I've had to wear a shirt when talking to my buddies who absolutely insist on video chat. Now that the AIM/Windows masses will come up to speed in the next few months I'll have to wear a shirt continuously. At least I can still have the freed of a Sportscenter broadcaster and not wear pants.

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    1. Re:ich trage nicht hosen by rajpaul · · Score: 2, Funny

      Who says you have to wear a shirt? If they don't like it, they'll stop insisting on Video. :-)

      If they do like it, well, I'll let you take it from there.

  13. Re:Not a troll by omarques · · Score: 1, Funny

    They made a special deal with 3DRealms to include the new linux version in the "Duke Nukem Forever" box.
    So, stay tuned.

  14. Re:ICQ next? by TheWickedKingJeremy · · Score: 4, Funny

    People still use ICQ? Ever since Mirabilis was bought out by AOL, ICQ has been an overbloated piece of IM software with entirely too many useless features. It basically turned into AIM on crack.

    Yeah but, I have a really low number...

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  15. Re:end of POTS? not yet.. by liquidsin · · Score: 3, Funny

    The quality's not sketchy, it's just misconfigured. Go ahead and send me the AIM screen names of these 11 y/o girls with webcams and I'll try to help them fix it...

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  16. Re:no end to analog by diablobynight · · Score: 2, Funny

    Also it's hard to look at Scully porn right down the hallway from your parents bedroom

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  17. Yeah, well by appleLaserWriter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nothing can stop my TCP/IP over Carrier Pigeons!

    1. Re:Yeah, well by cmstremi · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nothing can stop my TCP/IP over Carrier Pigeons!

      'cept a hungry kitty cat.

  18. end of the phone system? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Anyone else think we're nearing the end of the analog phone system?

    Yes. It's going to be just like Back to the Future 2 or Demolition Man, any day now. Ubiquitous video phones and flying cars should be here in 10 years or less. Toilet paper will be obsoleted by clamshells in 5 years or less.