I disagree. I think iChat AV has a looong way to. It far from easy. The specs say "Broadband Connection" but there needs to be specific up and download speeds. If you use a router, then you must actually go in and open specific poirts to allow the iSight to work.
Video chatting, even one way, with a windows user sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. And I have yet to Video Chat with my kids...and we are both high speed Cable.
Check out the forums and see all the difficulties people are having with time out messages and :no data sent" messages.
The iChat and iSight combination were, in my opinion, over promised in their simplicity. If a consumer (not prosumer) has to go in and configure a router and port forwarding, then it will never be a popular vehicle for communication.
You know what's funny...Yahoo video chat may not look as good as Apple's, but it connects and works EVERY time I do it.
I just want a solution that "just works". Isn't that what Apple is all about?
The iChat AV Resurrection