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Well, I m looking to buy an IM app, and I m comparing other IM apps for good deal and features (IM+, and now Trillian). The app is on sale too. Anyone??
1) On other IM apps lite, I dont get any 'offline' message from AIM - A friend sends me a message to my 'offline' AIM account; when I log in to AIM on IM+, i dont get any offline message from my friend .. does beejiveim get offline message from AIM??
2) When is the new version out?? Log for the new version??
3) Any plans for push email and twitter??
Thanks.
1) On other IM apps lite, I dont get any 'offline' message from AIM - A friend sends me a message to my 'offline' AIM account; when I log in to AIM on IM+, i dont get any offline message from my friend .. does beejiveim get offline message from AIM??
2) When is the new version out?? Log for the new version??
3) Any plans for push email and twitter??
Thanks.
wow, sorry to hear you having all these issues. but for most of us the app works fine so, i guess its another case of YMMV
wow, sorry to hear you having all these issues. but for most of us the app works fine so, i guess its another case of YMMV
IronLogik clearly beta tested Trillian for the iPhone or has some type of love for Trillian. He puts down Beejive in as many threads as possible. Cleary, everyone has their own opinion as to the best IM app for the iPhone. However, I can't buy the argument that Beejive is too complicated or has too many features. I really don't understand the logic with that argument.
I didn't beta test Trillian. I wasn't able to try it until it was released a week ago.
I bought Beejive when it was $10 when iPhone OS 3.0 was released. I have put up with it's crap for long enough. Constant disconnections, various bugs that make the app unusable without restarting it, TERRIBLE customer support being probably the biggest reason I say people shouldn't buy Trillian. I've posted numerous bug reports on their forum and to their support email. I never got responses from a human being when I sent to their email address and on their support forum I was belittled by their "fans" who think nothing is wrong with the app even though I provided directions to recreate the problems. So excuse me for trying to warn people of the crap that is Beejive. It's garbage. Their support is garbage.
I don't doubt some of you are happy. I suspect you have very low standards for what a $10 app should be like. So yes, your milage may vary. Certainly.
As for my like of Trillian. It isn't necessarily Trillian per say. It's a better option. I hounded Meebo for their iPhone application. Asking when they were going to release it. They keep saying "sometime this year" blah blah blah, excuses excuses excuses. Trillian announced their iPhone app and I was a Trillian for Windows Pro user. That was YEARS ago before I switched to a Mac. 2005 I think was the last time I used the app.
They're now developing a Mac application, released and are continuing to develop an iPhone application, have fantastic support that listens to their customers. It's everything Beejive (as an app, and as a company) is not.
Another reason to want to use Trillian
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/forums/showpost.php?p=797003&postcount=3
Link to the full thread http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98049
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/forums/showpost.php?p=797003&postcount=3
Link to the full thread http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98049
Frankly, most people do not have these issues you have. I do not have low standards. If I did, I would be using IM+ because it has historically been cheaper. I can understand being upset because Beejive doesn't work correctly for you. But I have been using it for months without issues/crashes/etc. And so have many other people. So don't assume everyone has the problems you have.
I suspect you're a jerk who isn't willing to accept that perhaps he's in the minority and the rest of us aren't experiencing the same problems.
Just maybe.
Just trying to promote my app!
Well, I m looking to buy an IM app, and I m comparing other IM apps for good deal and features (IM+, and now Trillian). The app is on sale too. Anyone??
1) On other IM apps lite, I dont get any 'offline' message from AIM - A friend sends me a message to my 'offline' AIM account; when I log in to AIM on IM+, i dont get any offline message from my friend .. does beejiveim get offline message from AIM??
2) When is the new version out?? Log for the new version??
3) Any plans for push email and twitter??
Thanks.
You can have your opinion, thats fine, but you really should not slam other for having theirs either. Its only right.
As far as my statement, Beejive does not have as many features like say ...IM+ does. At this point IM+ is hardly even usable, its too buggy and slow. Other then when FB makes changes i personally have not had issues with Beejive. Why would i have any reason to even look at trillan? What "garbage" options does beejive have? I'm willing to agree if you make a valid point, but you can't just say things without backing them up either.
Trillian might work but its not perfect either?
(from reviews, and i only mention bugs mentioned by users more then once)
no emotes
no landscape
sometimes can't scroll to the bottom
takes long to log into the app
UI is not clear for what client contacts are on (colored circles)
no facebook
Need to create a sepreate trillan account
other then that...people either hate trillan or love it. However, all the issues i noted do not occur in beejive, and to be fair beejive has been a longer time to develop and that goes back to my original point...functionality.
Your right trillan is brand new, but saying it needs time to catch up with beejive ETC. only reinforces why the majority would probably agree beejive is a better app. at this point in time.
My point hasn't been that it doesn't have MORE features. It's been that most of those features are worthless and add unneeded bulk to an app that should be pretty streamlined. Frivolous features for the sake of adding features? That's not how it's supposed to be done.
Trillian's developers have a much better idea of what a mobile application should be than Beejive's developers do. While Trillian might be new, I don't think it's going to take long before it surpasses Beejive in USEFUL features while remaining stable, clean, and better looking.
The amount of effort they've put into making the app seamlessly switch between connections (3G, Wifi, Edge) without having to restart the app is pretty amazing. They've shown they wanted a stable solid release first. Then they'll add more features once they have the app in the store.
But again. My argument has never been that Beejive doesn't have more features. Sure it does. But how useless are most of those features? Nearly all of them.
Again, if you're happy with it. Great. I'm not and I feel others who are looking to purchase an app should know about how bad the Beejive customer service is. I submitted several bug reports about the screen rotation issue that I posted a video of. They haven't even contacted me back saying they're going to look into it. I submitted it just after 3.0 was released, 3.1 was released and it's still there. That's shoddy customer service and bad for customers.
I'm not really debating the issue here, you can like and think what you want as well as i can too. Thats the beauty of this. Obviously the more apps, the more competitive they have to become, which is better for all of us.
The main point when you made your comment
Your last statement there was not called for...and i did take offense.
All you have to do is say you had a bad beejive experience and thats why you totally thread jacked the "beejive is on sale" thread with your opinion for Trillan. I would respect that more.
The main point when you made your comment
Your last statement there was not called for...and i did take offense.
All you have to do is say you had a bad beejive experience and thats why you totally thread jacked the "beejive is on sale" thread with your opinion for Trillan. I would respect that more.
You shouldn't have to pay for these apps in the first place. They are availible for free on a computer, so why would a stripped down version on an ipod cost more? That's why Im not going to get instant messaging for my ipod touch until a decent free one comes out.
Absolutely - I bought it when it was $10 and it is the most used app on my phone
George
I thought I'd give this a try while it was on sale for £3.99 and so far I'm very impressed with it. I've used most of the other IM apps and this does look like it is the best of the bunch.
Those drawbacks are correct for the moment, though they have landscape
and other improvements ready for the next release. i've never had "scroll to
the bottom" problems. ...."takes long to log into the app" ....really ? of all
ones i've tried, ebuddy, nimbuzz, IM+, etc Trillian is the fastest, and as
stated above has no problems when switching from WiFi to 3G ....i've found
Trillian to be a very reliable app for me