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Whenever a company issues a new operating system for their hardware there is always the chance of older programs no longer working with the new version. This is why there is a extensive testing period and pre-release beta versions of Operating Systems released giving companies the window to update their code and have a new version of their App ready to go on or around the time of the launch.
At least that is how MOST companies look at things, but clearly not YAHOO! You see when OS X Yosemite released one would figure that Yahoo would have made sure to have updated their Messenger App to support it.
WRONG!
With over 80 Applications on My system at the time of upgrading the Operating system, only one ended up not working post update...Yahoo Messenger. A search on Google very quickly found that I was not the only one with this problem as both Apple and Yahoo Forms, as well as ones on sites like mac rumours all are posting the same thing. Yahoo users who no longer can use Messenger.
And upon looking further including finding this link to Yahoo's Messenger help page, Yahoo appears to have no intent to update it, in fact the exact wording on this page is as follows
MAC OS X 10.10 Yosemite and later: Yahoo
Messenger is not compatible
To continue delivering a safe, secure, and stable Yahoo Messenger for Mac, Yahoo Messenger won’t be supported on versions newer than Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
You can still access Yahoo Messenger
You'll still be able to access, view, and send IMs using our Messenger in Mail interface.
Yes, you read that right, Yahoo is playing the "We want to keep people safe and secure" card to justify NOT updating their App. The problem is this decision on Apple's part actually puts their Users data in danger. I have seen people suggest work arounds like changing the build number in the info file of the App (for Windows users think having to do a Registry Edit just to get it to work). Others are suggesting using programs like Trillian (which have users concerned because it stores their Yahoo Password in their servers) or using Apple's Messages app-which gives the user IM's but has reports of lacking the ability to use Voice or Web Cam Services.
Yosemite was announced to the public by Apple at this past June's WWDC Event, it went through 6 or 7 Beta versions before the final release was rolled out to the masses. that means Yahoo had a good 5 months where they could have worked with Apple's developers to ensure that a compatible, stable, working first person client which looked out for Users security was accessible to the masses, instead those YAHOO's did nothing and look where we now are.
On behalf of Mac running Yahoo users, thanks for looking out for us Yahoo...care to protect the iOS versions next?
