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January 4, 2008

software

Proteus is still kicking

Posted Jan. 4, ’08, 7:18 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Software

Proteus When it came to multiple IM platform clients, you used to have three options for Mac OS X. You had Adium, Fire.app, and Proteus. I started using OS X to try out Fire.app. I warmed up to Adium quickly. Proteus was always the client I would look at, try to spend a few hours using, then ultimately give up because it just didn’t feel comfortable or because it cost money. To be honest, why would I pay for something that didn’t feel as intuitive as the free competition.

Proteus did have the advantage of being really pretty, featuring fades and other clever graphical effects before it became popular. In 2006, the product was changed to freeware. 2007 came and went without a single software update. I was getting ready to add it to my list of dead applications (I’m beginning to get a perverse pleasure out of it), but they’ve released 4.16 which includes some bugfixes.

It shows the application hasn’t been abandoned, but until they release a major new version with large new features, I’m going to be reserved about its continued life as a product. Even if it does make a big comeback, Adium is just so good and improving so rapidly.

[via Ars Technica]


1 Comments

Greg said:

Whichever one that fully emulates/copies/whatever every feature in Yahoo Messenger for Windows and MSN for Windows will corner the market on IM. Mark my words.

January 6, 2008 2:21 PM

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