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AirPlay Mirroring and iMessage Coming to Mac OS X Lion

Yes duh!

They definitely need to allow us to mirror our laptops on the big screen. It'd be nice if they'd stop treating the Mac as a second class citizen. I understand it's cheaper to innovate on mobile products but come'on some things like this should be a no brainer.
 
AdeFowler said:
To use iMessage effectively on a Mac, I think we need Notification Centre as well. The bouncing dock icon would do my head in otherwise :)
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That or some growl-esque notification. I'm a heavy user of growlvoice ;)
 
iMessage MUST be integrated with iChat.

Currently iChat enables me to have my gtalk and Facebook Jabber account merged into one contact, so that when I talk to them it chooses which account to communicate with them.

iMessage would have to be similar here, in that if they message me using iMessage it has to come up under the contact (will all other account messages) coming up in the same window.

Although how it would determine which way to send the message back?

*shrug*

I'm sure Apple will work it out...
 
Sackvillenb said:
Great news! iMessage will obviously be handy on the Mac, but if you can airplay any content to your apple tv, now THAT's something really awesome! Because that means you can effectively bypass all the limitations of the apple TV! One reason I never got the apple tv is that I can't play ALL my media through it. Video is the best example, like MKV files, etc., but now I can play it all through my mac, and simply send the video signal to the apple TV! Awesomeness, if this is true!
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That is a good point but more of a reason for them not to develop it.. Apple wants us to buy everything through iTunes and Apple stuff is quite locked down.. this is quite 'open' for an apple product.
 
I can see airplay coming to the mac and would like it. iMessage on the mac I don't see that happening
 
burnout8488 said:
There is no reason to worry about iMessage being separate from iChat.

iChat will probably be renamed iMessage, actually. And, it will probably use the same auto-detection that the iPhone does when determining if an e-mail or phone contact is iMessage capable.

Three separate apps would suck - it wouldn't happen.
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I hope so. But really I just wish that Apple would have brought iChat to iOS devices rather than invent new things, FaceTime and iMessage, that they later bring to the Mac.
 
jamesr19 said:
would much rather have airplay second monitor - would be far more useful on Macs!
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Yeah, I'd like that too!

Imagine a projector with an Apple TV attached to it via HDMI; then you could have people wirelessly project with no cables, dongles, or even special software (apart from having the latest OS X).
 
Fantastic! I've been waiting for this.

It's been puzzling me why this hasn't been available since Airplay came out...can anyone shed any light as to why this wasn't technological possible (if this is the reason)? I'm really curious to know about this from a learning point of view.
 
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I hope someone develops a way to mirror my iPad or iPhone to my Mac mini that's connected to my HDTV . Would keep me from spending 100 on an apple tv , which will be nice considering I've already wasted 40 on the digital output connector..
 
Concorde Rules said:
iMessage MUST be integrated with iChat.

Currently iChat enables me to have my gtalk and Facebook Jabber account merged into one contact, so that when I talk to them it chooses which account to communicate with them.

iMessage would have to be similar here, in that if they message me using iMessage it has to come up under the contact (will all other account messages) coming up in the same window.

Although how it would determine which way to send the message back?

*shrug*

I'm sure Apple will work it out...
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Last time I checked, Apple decides what it MUST do, not rumor board members.
 
funkdis said:
They need to fix the codec used on teh ipad first, when I play real racing HD with airplay, the image is pixelated and not HD on my 720p lcd (37inch).
ipad2 -> airport express (11n) --> apple Tv. all within 3m of each other. its not what I expected along with ipad mirroring that creates a 4:3 border, hell this is 2011 and we live our life with 16:9, not 1984 with 4:3.
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First, they have to get it running on Macs first, because that is what _I_ care about. And second, I love big 16:10 screens. Trust the monitor makers to cut off ten percent of the screen at the bottom and tell you that it is better.

Uplift said:
That is a good point but more of a reason for them not to develop it.. Apple wants us to buy everything through iTunes and Apple stuff is quite locked down.. this is quite 'open' for an apple product.
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Apple wants you to buy Apple hardware. Apple wants me to buy another Mac in a few years. Ever thought about showing Safari on a big screen? Or PDF files? Or anything else for that matter that isn't pre-packaged for you?
 
jonohayes said:
I really hope Apple make 1 application for iMessage, FaceTime, and iChat.

I'm sick of having 2 and soon to be 3 applications that do that same thing on the mac.

they could even open it up so yahoo, MSN maybe even Skype could tap into it! (dreaming i know)....
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iChat already supports plugins. In fact, that's how Yahoo support is implemented in Lion.

As for Skype, they already have their own app that they tightly control. Integrating Skype into iChat would reduce their ability to do their own UI (and ads). I don't see that happening.
 
Airplay to a TV from my MBP would be amazing. iMessages popping up on my computer not so much.
 
blackboxxx said:
As for Skype, they already have their own app that they tightly control. Integrating Skype into iChat would reduce their ability to do their own UI (and ads). I don't see that happening.
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Skype is releasing a developer API for this purpose. They probably feel that it is more valuable to them to get skype in as many places as possible. This is great, as the Skype UI is awful. Hoping it comes to Adium.
 
I just recently converted my last AIM account to Gtalk so now my iChat is just using Gtalk protocol. :D

iMessage will be great, sending free texts to friends over their phone. My buddy does this now with Trillian app for iOS but it's really clunky. Would be great if it's just part of iMessage app.
 
Cougarcat said:
I think the reason they made FaceTime a separate app was so you could receive calls in the background, without the app open. Presumably, iMessage would need this capability as well.

They should integrate iMessage with the FaceTime App instead. Sometimes I've wanted to send the person I'm FaceTiming a link.
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I was about to post a comment asking why they didn't integrate them into iChat and your post makes sense. I also agree that having iMessage and FaceTime combined (even on the iPad) would be a great idea.
 
This sounds awesome. I'd love to be able to use iMessage on my Mac, and Airplay mirroring would be awesome for presenting. Let's hope these two show up sooner than later!

Like others, I don't see Apple having iChat, Facetime and iMessage apps. Some consolidation is in order.
 
Awesome Features

I hope both of these come to fruition sooner rather than later, they're both really useful.
Apple seems to understand the convergence of the living room and mobile experience better than any company, and AirPlay's increasing adoption and support shows this. The 6 foot and 6 inch experiences are really important.
As for messaging, iMessage would really only be useful to me once I can get it on desktops or laptops - I've become accustomed to leaving my phone tucked away or putting it in airplane mode while still getting SMSs and calls delivered. The integration of FaceTime and iChat and iMessages, which I hope is in the works, would put Apple at the forefront of messaging.
 
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I'm really looking forward to imessage, because I still have an iPhone 3G
 
GenesisST said:
It never cesses to amaze me that people actually spend time looking into strings from application, beta software, etc.

As a father of two young kids: it is part contempt (for the wasting of time), part jealousy (for the wasting of time) on my part... :-S
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Then you're in the wrong place. As implied by its name, the purpose of MacRumors is to dig up that sort of thing, then speculate endlessly on it. :p

Is it a waste of time? Absolutely. Do I need to waste time sometimes, to help procrastinate things I'd rather not be doing? Absolutely.
 
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