I just blogged on how much I like Disgby and how I like it better than Trillian. That was a hard fact to swallow.
And today, someone IMs me and tells me about Trillian Astra.
Man, do things change quickly.
It looks sexy. It looks pretty cool. I don’t care about MySpace messages or emoticons, but it looks pretty slick from the screen shots and I like what I read about the functionality. I dont tend to install alphas, but I just might… this one time…
Take a peek: Trillian Astra
J
They have been talking about Astra since 2005 and we have yet to see anything (except for a handful of Alpha testers). Don’t hold your breath that it will be available anytime soon.
I echo Daniel here. Astra’s been in development forever and a day, its list of free vs. premium features and services in their latest blog entry seems a bit misguided, and their seeming reluctance to communicate with the everyday customer has been a point of contention for a lot of people for a long time now.
That being said, I’m sure Astra will be a fine program when finally sees the light of day for the public. But, the process has taken far too long. I mean, people will be using Trillian Astra while listening to “Chinese Democracy.” For all we know, they’ll log off to load up Duke Nukem Forever.