iChat for Windows?

Chauncey Dupree
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June 07, 2008
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Is this iChat for Windows?  Or a slightly clever Photoshop?  We'll know in T-minus 2 days and counting...

 

 

Found originally here

Comments (33)

AI (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 12:26pm

defiantly photoshopped,the edges of the window are really blurry and it looks like they took the buttons for iTunes

Jensonb (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 12:27pm

What need is there...What possible use is there...for iChat on Windows?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 08, 2008 - 3:59pm

To finally be able to video chat with pc users properly - it's the final argument for most of my wintel friends to not come over to the mac-side - they can't video chat on msn. I know there is aMSN and Mercury, but they're both slow, ugly and very flakey - this is a very important step in gaining the average home user.

tico24 (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 12:43pm

The menu text is all wrong (i.e. wrong font, wrong point size etc).

'Window' and 'Help' are too close together

Title font is incorrect.

Top of the window (above the title text) has excessive photoshop blurring.

edt: why is there still a hash on your captcha when there isn't a hash key on the mac keyboards?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 12:53pm

Wow, this makes my brain hurt. If iChat is really coming to Windows they should have at least have it run on Vista (I think that is XP). Then Apple could brag that they are the only ones who can make anything run on VISTA.

MacOSXPC.Com (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 12:57pm

Just have a look at the icon file name on desktop. Do you think Apple would write it as "ichat"? Or "iChat"...

Alex (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 1:35pm

The picture is obviously fake. The fonts are WAY too inconsistent and the picture has blurred edges. Not to mention "ichat". If you compare the minimize/maximize/close buttons to those in Safari, it's off.

Darran (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 1:43pm

Looks like they put too much effort into this fake.

Darran (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 1:44pm

I'm not saying that Apple wont launch such a product, just that this screenshot is fake.

ethan (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 2:43pm

This is the absolute worst fake I have ever seen. The fonts are completely off, the spacing is atrocious, and the whole iChat window is blurry while the Windows desktop is nearly crystal clear.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 2:45pm

Looks like DEVELOPMENT VERSION to me. Developers are known for not putting the install package (all proper capitalization etc.) together until it passes beta.

The presentation flaw is well convincing - the right mistake for this circumstance.

Fluke (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 2:48pm

Slighty clever Photoshop? Not even a reasonably terrible one. This is brutal. And if you are blind and can't tell from the iChat application, refer to what one of the other commenters wrote: iChat not ichat. Apple would never make that mistake. Rookie error by the person who created this with Microsoft Paint.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 3:00pm

It wouldn't have screen sharing.

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 3:16pm

I remember when Apple lawyers ordered 9to5mac to delete the spy pictures of the new iPod Nano. 9to5mac then said that they will upload the fan's artwork which will be close to the realiity.

sean_h (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 3:40pm

There is absolutely no point in having iChat for Windows, unless it can connect to pretty much all of the IMs, not just AIM or Jabber.

m (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 4:22pm

you aren't thinking very hard. there are a lot of chat features-- video chat, fle sharing-- that just won't work over a shared protocol. it can be frustrating when your friend has a mac, and you don't. then you start to notice that ichat looks nicer, which gets you thinking about your next purchase. if they gave us windows itunes and safari for this same reason, why not ichat?

but i agree, how hard is it to fake a shot like that? you could make a perfect one with a simple cut and paste job on a mac running an emulator. no points for skill.

ben (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 3:45pm

I'm not sure why people waste their time photoshopping a simple app like iChat into a Windows background. Anyone with a basic knowledge of photoshop can do this (and do it much much better). I'm going to "leak" shots of Garage Band and Final Cut running on Windows to some blogs and see how bananas people will go over that... Just sick of pointless posts of screenshot posts...

m (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 4:26pm

it's not a new idea, in any case.

http://gwhiz.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/ipredict-ichat-for-windows/

F A K E (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 5:39pm

I would believe you more if you said it was Coherence view for windows than iChat (or ichat) for windows... lol.

This was made with MS paint... it just looks very bad...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 5:39pm

how bout making it compatible with MSN hmm Apple? If it is, then I would consider using iChat more... coz my friends all use MSN...

The Magnificen7 (not verified) | June 08, 2008 - 8:59pm

That would be the exact opposite of what they want. They want Windows users to use Apple software (iTunes and Safari are examples) so that they will consider a Mac as their next purchase.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 7:47pm

i doubt that will ever happen

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 07, 2008 - 8:01pm

Wow, all the people befuddled by why Apple would port iChat to Windows...if the iPhone has video iChat...do you think they want to limit that to Mac users only?

If the iPhone has iChat-it would be stupid for Apple NOT to give Windows a version of iChat.

AAPL (not verified) | June 08, 2008 - 3:19am

Maybe run windows through wmware or paralells, screenshot, wallpaper.. run ichat and make some names blurr ..photo little things. make screenshot again.. and this is what you get..

CF Noob (not verified) | June 08, 2008 - 3:37am

PC iChat would be necessary if 3G iphone had iChat videoconferencing...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 08, 2008 - 7:13am

Adium > I-chat > alternatives > MSN Messenger
I would love to get a prooper chat client for Windows.

chimpy (not verified) | June 08, 2008 - 9:18am

"edt: why is there still a hash on your captcha when there isn't a hash key on the mac keyboards?"

Macs do have a hash key. You have to press Alt+3. ########

:)

tico24 (not verified) | June 08, 2008 - 12:54pm

Thats two keys :)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 08, 2008 - 12:37pm

The green bullet and pulldown with "Available" is nearly equal to Adium.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 02, 2008 - 7:12am

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