I'm sorry to ask this question here, but where else?

I've been wondering why Skype for Mac with video support has been so long to come since I saw the version for PC. I understand the market, Mac is only a small (but increasing) fraction. But why did we have to wait about a year to get it?

Were there technical issues? In this case which ones? They must have been pretty big to workaround. In this case, I'd like to know which part of Mac's architecture or software caused such a delay.

Was there a (understandable but unforgivable) lack of support from Apple development? A lack of programmer?

Were there commercial pressure from Apple (since Skype somehow competes with Apple's iChat)? (I think iChat will ofer even more in Apple's next version of the OS anyway.)

Or was it just Skype's politics to focus on big (read PC) market first

We will probably never know everything about this story, but I feel really sorry for the Mac people.

(it must be the price to pay if you have a better computer ;-) )

Pierre

it works now right?
Be happy.

Yeah, I know. it is quite terrible that it took so long...But I couldn't be happier! I don't own a MAC, but my friend from U.S (I'm from Brazil) has one and I tried EVERYTHING to connect our webcams, but we never got it to work. So thankfully today my friend found out about the new version of Skype for mac! It was amazing! Everything about it worked perfectly! I mean, I put it on Fullscreen and the image quality was great. So YES, it would be really good if Skype got their MAC versions updated sooner, but I am glad they still DID and didn't just decide to completely forget about it. I mean, MSN Messenger for MAC doesn't have video yet and its like aancient news on Windows! Plus, AIM never worked from MAC to PC either...