Apple ID/.Mac account with other IM services

Ok so simply ichat is a multiIM application. So if i have a .Mac account who can i talk to? Can i talk to AIM people? and are features limited between talking to .Mac users and AIM people, what features do i lose?

Hi,
iChat can use any Valid AIM login as your Screen Name.
Apple @mac.com names are all Valid Login names. Lapsed paid for accounts and trials beyond the 60 days and current one linked to a MobileMe account.
Paid for and Trial MobileMe names (Ending @me.com) are also valid names. (Lapsed Trial Accounts are not valid).
Apple names may or may not be used as Apple IDs for other purposes. (logins here at Discussions, iTunes or for use at the Store).
Broadly speaking this will give you an "AIM" Buddy list as it logs in to the AIM servers.
You can add Buddies with the same three Name types.
NOTES:
AIM allows you to actually register an Email address as a Screen Name (like @me.com is). (I have in fact seen a Hotmail.com name listed)
They have also made arrangements with other ISPs to allow their email IDs as Screen Names like the Apple Deal.
Jabber IDs come in two basic forms.
Google Mail IDs once you have Enable Talk on your Google Account page will allow you access to the GoogleTalk Service.
A Name/ID from any other Jabber Server. (these tend to use an email like looking name for you
AS indicated above an AIM Buddy list can have Buddies that are also AIM valid names added to it. So you may have a mixture of @Me.com, @mac.com and AIM names in it as a Buddy List.
Jabber IDs and GoogleTlak names can be added to a Jabber or GoogleTalk Buddy list.
You cannot mix or Add Jabber IDs to an AIM Buddy List and vice versa.
AIM Buddy lists.
In theory you can Audio Only or Video to anyone that is using a AIM based App that can Video or Audio Chat.
For a PC that is the AIM App for PCs or Trillian (comes in two forms, the Old Pro version and Astra)
For Mac users it is of course iChat.
Jabber/Google Buddy Lists
This can Audio Only and Video Chat to any other iChat User also using a Jabber/Google Buddy list.
It cannot do it to anyone logged in to their Google Mail page and using the Chat option there (This tends to be Mac Intels Only using a Plug-in for their browser) nor to the PC app also called GoogleTalk.
You cannot Video or Audio to a Jabber App on PC or Mac.
NOTES: Jabber apps that can do Video and Audio tend to have something called the Jingle Library added on to the App that makes the connection. Google have a variation on this that is also not compatible from the GoogleTalk App to other Jabber Apps on PCs.
See here for more
I have yet to come across a Mac Jabber app that has Video or Audio abilities.
Apart from GoogleTalk, most Jabber Registrations need you to have a separate Jabber App (very few have Web Site based Registrations) and require that you use that to Register with a Jabber Server.
Some Jabber Servers run what is called Transports that allow Text Chatting between Jabber IDs and some of the other main IM services.
See this List
With using a Server with the required transports you can use these Instructions to Text Chat to MSN and Yahoo Buddies (this is not difficult but is involved).
Features.
An valid AIM Buddy lists allows you to Video, Audio or text Chat to any other AIM valid name.
If you have An @mac.com name that is linked to a MobileMe account or a MobileMe account name you can use Encryption in those Chats. (not @me.com or linked @mac.com to AIM
A Jabber/Google list can only Video or Audio chat to other iChat users but can text chat to all the options above (GoogleTlak App, Google Mail Chat link and iChat Users).
8:46 PM Sunday; September 26, 2010
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