Lame Yahoo!
Yahoo! is dying. Yahoo! is desperate. Yahoo! is panicking. The result is, Yahoo! adopting Microsoft's monopolistic strategy. Once they might had been the biggest, but now just trying to survive.
It is official that from now on Yahoo! will take an active stance to ensure anyone that uses Yahoo! instant messaging will do so using their client program. This is done by frequently changing the protocols and even inserting random number sequences in the header to confuse third party clients, such as Trillian and Easy Message.
Honestly, Yahoo! Messenger's features do not impress me. The most popular (among my friends) are Games and Voice Conference. We can go to Yahoo! Games site directly and ICQ had been offering voice conference since time immemorial. I can't see the benefits of having any of those.
Yahoo! is adopting Microsoft strategy of trying to monopolize anything they can get their hands on. Recently they tried to hold the interest on their webmail accounts by increasing storage limit to 100 MB, in response to Gmail's genereous 1000 MB offer. And yet, it seems that their desperate effort to stem the tide is failing. Gmail account is held in high regard anywhere. Almost like an icon for achievement.
First, it's the web search and site directory services that was under attack by competitors, the biggest being no other than Google. Yahoo! search engine frequently returns poor results. Not to mention from very limited sources, compared to Google's. Microsoft's games Zone detract Yahoo! Games appeal to gamers community, especially for the retail game products. When MSN Messenger, ICQLite and third party messenger clients entered the arena, they pushed Yahoo! Messenger off almost to oblivion. Gmail's shocking 1000 MB offering put the last nail.
Yahoo! must have realized that their end is coming fast. They are doing whatever they can to prevent the inevitable. Would it be enough? Time will tell. Personally, I don't think it will.
They forget, are ignorant to the fact, or even worse do not care that people use third party clients because installing and running several messenger clients at the same time is annoying. The primary and most important purpose of messenger is to -- Yahoo!, take note! -- deliver and receive messages. Plain and simple but it's surprising how many people just can't seem to understand.
People don't like to constrain themselves to one particular instant messaging service. Be it personal preferences, because they are used to one and others another, or it's the first messenger they use and see no reason to change. We had been in the situation years ago, where friends couldn't communicate with each other because they were on different services. One with MSN, the other one uses ICQ, yet other likes Yahoo!, another only knows AOL Instant Messenger.
Third party messengers fill the role as bridge of communications. Instead of multitude of messengers from all different services, you can use only one and talk with all your collegues. That's the purpose and nature of these messengers.
Yahoo! in their arrogants try to deny us users this.
Well if they won't let me use other clients to connect then I won't use Yahoo! instant messaging at all. That is why I urge my friends to have at least two messenger services. Now that Yahoo! has closed the door, we will see sudden rise of registrations at MSN and reactivation of old ICQ accounts.
Yahoo! is not the only service out there.
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