Apple to take on Skype?
A recent screen shot that surfaced at TUAW gives credence to rumors that Apple is morphing their iChat instant messenging application into a full-blown Voice Over Inter Protocol (VOIP) client.
The version in the shot (iChat 4.0 v454) is presumably a beta from a recent Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) development build. Whether or not the feature is real or will actually arrive in 10.5 is up for debate. In the screen shot Apple has dropped the “AV” in the name instead reverting back to just “iChat.”read more?
The ichat is a great tool and would be even better with voip. I wonder if they would follow skype and also offer the voicemail sent as a text message service from spinvox. This is a great new service offered spinvox. I use them to convert y voicemail into a text/email. I will be watching this one as I like ichat and it is obviously going to get better.