The Missing App (Multi-Protocol IM)
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Like most iPhone owners this weekend, I was having a blast with the new 2.0 software. Also as a .Mac user, I have watched the painful Mobile Me transition unfold (well, it still is). While waiting for the Mobile Me rollercoaster to stop, I spent a lot of time experimenting with or reading about many of the 500 applications now available for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Interestingly, I noticed one important application not on the list.
While AIM showed up for opening day to provide its users with a chat program, everyone else was absent. More importantly, no third party developer had a multi-protocol chat client available! I was very surprised that an iPhone equivalent of Adium or Pidgin wasn’t available. Of the 500 applications available, I still find myself crawling back to Meebo, to accomplish something I should have a program for.
Oh multi-protocol IM client developers, where art thou? Please make an app available. I would happily pay for such a solution.
