Just Talk

I switched to iChat because I’m staring at the screen half the day anyway—might as well use something beautiful. Apple designed this with actual restraint: no games, no ads, no features you didn’t ask for. Just a window where you and someone else talk.

There’s something almost perverse about a messenger that doesn’t try to extract something from you. Every other app is built to hook you, to harvest your attention, to sell you back to yourself. iChat just works. That simplicity is the whole design—no flourishes, no ego, just elegant emptiness.

You don’t think about the interface while you’re using it. The app disappears and you’re talking to someone. That’s the only thing that matters.