http://www.macnn.com/articles/04/09/16/macphone.network/
BW: Apple should create a 'Macphone' network
updated 11:40 am EDT, Thu September 16, 2004
\'Macphone\' network
In a review of the recently released -- Macphone, if you like." Salkever also says that Skype is the only company that "rivals Apple in making hard tasks really, really easy," but think that has a larger chance of success: "Apple already has the pieces in place to do what Skype is doing -- and it actually has a better chance of success. For starters, it has a paying customer base. It sells around 3 million computers a year, and it also enjoys an installed base of close to 20 million users, most of whom continue to pay money to Apple to purchase periodic software upgrades."
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Granted I have only tried the Skipe beta once. But the audio was unusable, tones of distortion and lag, cutting out all the time. then without changing anything, the same person and I switch to iCat... Flawless! Unfortunately, this friend had assumed that because he did not have an iSIght, there was nothing but text chatting in iChat, an unfortunately common assumption. Apple really needs to do a better job of letting people know what they can really DO with there stuff. most mac users simply have no idea that this sort of thing is possible.