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iChat AV for Jaguar Discontinued

Saturday October 2, 2004 3:05 pm PDT by Doctor Q
The online Apple Store is no longer selling iChat AV for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar).

iChat AV, Apple's videoconferencing software designed for use with the iSight video camera, is part of Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) and was previously available for Jaguar (10.2.5 or later) for $29.95 in the online Apple Store.

Apple's iChat AV page no longer mentions the use of the software under Jaguar and the iChat AV download page states that "Mac OS X v10.3 or later" is the minimum requirement for iChat AV 2.1.

The iSight and iChat AV (as beta software) were introduced in June 2003.
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AoWolf
96 months ago
Wonder why
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cslewis
96 months ago
(sigh) poor jaguar users... :D Seriously, tough, that's pretty bad. I wonder why they dropped iChat AV for Janguar?

EDIT: Apple probably wants people to upgrade... for $129, of course.
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AoWolf
96 months ago

(sigh) poor jaguar users... :D Seriously, that's pretty bad. I wonder why apple didn't let users of jaguar to continue iChat AV? Maybe apple wants people to upgrade in order to stay tech savvy...


Or they want $129 :rolleyes:
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cslewis
96 months ago

Or they want $129 :rolleyes:


Hey! No fair! You replied before I was done editing my post!
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AoWolf
96 months ago

Hey! No fair! You replied before I was done editing my post!


Or you edited after I replied. :p
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blueBomber
96 months ago
How well did it sell? Most people I know upgraded to Panther very soon after it was released, so none of them had a use for the $30 ichat AV purchase. Complete lack of sales could be why they stopped producing it.
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wrldwzrd89
96 months ago

(sigh) poor jaguar users... :D Seriously, tough, that's pretty bad. I wonder why they dropped iChat AV for Janguar?

EDIT: Apple probably wants people to upgrade... for $129, of course.

I take this as a sign that Tiger may be coming sooner than expected, since Tiger is supposed to contain an updated iChat AV.
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varmit
96 months ago
Yeah, i don't know why anyone would want to pay 30 bucks for it, when just a little more, you get the whole OS.
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Doctor Q
96 months ago
I don't see why they didn't let the Jaguar version remain unchanged and available, for a price, even as they improve it and create new versions for Panther and Tiger. There is a cost to stocking it in the brick and mortar stores, but very little to keep it available (maybe just for download, not boxed) online.

Sometimes a discontinued product version turns free (all but the latest versions of Mac OS 7 eventually did), but Apple has not done that often, and making iChat AV free for Panther would have angered those who paid for it.

I conclude that they are doing this to nudge people further toward Panther and Tiger.
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wrldwzrd89
96 months ago

I don't see why they didn't let the Jaguar version remain unchanged and available, for a price, even as they improve it and create new versions for Panther and Tiger. There is a cost to stocking it in the brick and mortar stores, but very little to keep it available (maybe just for download, not boxed) online.

Sometimes a discontinued product version turns free (all but the latest versions of Mac OS 7 eventually did), but Apple has not done that often, and making iChat AV free for Panther would have angered those who paid for it.

I conclude that they are doing this to nudge people further toward Panther and Tiger.

I think you got your Mac OS X versions mixed up. Didn't you mean "...and making iChat AV free for Jaguar would have angered those who paid for it"?
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