AOL is advertising their great efforts to protect users from viruses and the rest of the Internet from AOL user's infected computers. Their TV ad verbally says "AOL offers this protection for ALL users". When I try to get their software for my Powerbook, it says "we only support PC users". Hmmm....as I recall, AOL has had Mac users since the early days of their service. But it appears we are NOT part of ALL users/customers now. Interesting.....
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Maybe they meant "For ALL users" that need it, thereby excluding Mac's :-)
Posted by: John McCaffrey | February 14, 2005 at 05:23 PM
Yeah, I bet they did :).... I have noticed that keep using language that is misleading. They need to add Mac support since Steve Jobs is gonna "rule the world" soon....
Posted by: Techtoyz | February 15, 2005 at 10:18 PM
Is it just not my preference or is the AOL client for OS X really, really ugly? It doesn't appear to be an Aqua-based interface and from what I can tell the current version (10.3?) is circa 2003.
Posted by: John McCaffrey | February 16, 2005 at 10:30 AM
I just got an "upgrade notice" from AOL last night. Even though I thought I was at the latest build, it did APPEAR to do a complete upgrade. Mine now says Version 10.3.6 (Revision 4136.291). What does yours say?
Also, while ugly, it is much more integrated into the OS than the Windows version. In Windows, it is either active or minimized completely. The Mac version allows me to keep the buddy list up, or a chat room up, while the rest of the app is minimized. So I really like the Mac version better.
Posted by: Techtoyz | February 17, 2005 at 08:18 PM
I'm still at version 10.3 I logged on thinking I would be prompted for the upgrade, but so far nothing.
I use AOL so rarely and actually keep it around for when I travel- the logic being if I had to use a dial-up connection it would be easier to find local numbers in more cities, but with the broadband being so freely available in all of the hotels I frequent the argument for keeping it is increasingly more difficult to quantify.
One thing I have noticed though, a lot of older applications look a little worse on the 30" display than on the 23" or 20" displays and AOL definately improves visually on the smaller displays.
Posted by: John McCaffrey | February 19, 2005 at 04:05 PM