![]() In fact, for a long time, the only advantage of Yahoo! mail over Google mail was that the former could open multiple windows(or tabs) which made for much easier reading of the Eclipse-related bugs that came my way. Oh, there's been some Mac-based clients for Yahoo!, and open apps like Adium have fought the cat- and- mouse battle between the protocol and the application, but ultimately it was Yahoo!'s closed-ness that pushed me away. Google Mail was the starting point, and Google Talk's use of XMPP became instantly available in products like iChat. The game changer, as with much else in the internet, was the arrival of the Google services. At the same time, I found less and less time to play bridge (both in the virtual and real world) and whilst I've never really had a problem with Yahoo! Mail, it has remained pretty stubborn in terms of interfacing with the outside world. ![]() Yahoo! messenger managed to go from a market leader to an also-ran just by being gratuitously closed (even to the extent of intentionally breaking third-party applications like Adium). Sadly, though, as with much of life, things tended to go flat. Oh, the spam filtering was pretty good in comparison to the junk that came through in Hotmail's inbox.
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