Also, Multi-Touch is such a gimmick on a computer, ...
FWIW, multi-touch is absolutely not a gimmick on macOS. I use it constantly and effortlessly, it's just second nature (two finger scrolling, three fingers to swipe between spaces, three-finger-and-thumb unpinch/pinch to show/hide the desktop, three finger swipe up to see all your windows). I'd be very unhappy without all that.Aren't all laptops using this multi-touch "gimmick"?
Oh, I 100% agree. My reply to that point was meant to be a little sarcastic, as to say, if it's such a "gimmick" why are nearly all laptops now using multi-touch. It makes the user experience, effortless, as you pointed out.FWIW, multi-touch is absolutely not a gimmick on macOS. I use it constantly and effortlessly, it's just second nature (two finger scrolling, three fingers to swipe between spaces, three-finger-and-thumb unpinch/pinch to show/hide the desktop, three finger swipe up to see all your windows). I'd be very unhappy without all that.
But was it ever down from accidentally dragging selected text into a terminal window (why the **** is that even a feature??) and having it execute tons of random commands? Yep, that's how I deleted my home directory.my infrastructure was never down due to a "typo"
Apple didn't want to bring iMessage to Android, and now they're about to lose 1st place in the messaging world.
Well in my case, I still pay $20/month for unlimited texting and mobile-mobile calls. But that's because I'm still on a grandfathered unlimited data plan...Texting plans are so last decade - didn't all the carriers go to "unlimited voice, unlimited texts, just pay for data"? (In Verizon's case, it certainly looked like a reaction to iMessage, actually - if Apple was going to eat into their texting profits, Verizon was just going to bundle texting into all their plans so they could continue claim it as part of the benefit of the plan "see, you're getting texting included".) I hear there are some other countries where text plans are still a thing.
To be fair, consider McDonald's. Half the time the McFlurry machine is "down." I myself don't own the proper equipment to make my own McFlurry. But I know damn well that machine better be (and likely is) running.LOL. What's the uptime of your infrastructure?
Almost as if it’s not genuine...A common strength of people who take pride in switching from Apple products is that they are great at sticking around these forums and telling us how far "behind" Apple is and how *insert any non-Apple company here* is better than Apple. It's almost like a religious awakening that compels them to save the rest of us unwashed heathens from the damnation of a life with Apple products.
Does the average person really use multiple message apps? I am sure it is more common with android, but IOS is probably like 99% iMessage.
They won't decide that a year later, it's likely on the roadmap now - get customers hooked first, then "monetize" them after they've established a sufficient base.
[doublepost=1500230692][/doublepost]The advantage I see iMessage having over most of these other services is, it semi-transparently falls back to SMS if one of the parties isn't using iOS/macOS. So I can use the standard built-in messaging app, and it uses the best-available transport, whether iMessage or SMS, and if that's iMessage, then there's bonus features (read receipts, seeing that others are typing, sharing location, etc.).
With most every other messaging service, both parties have to commit ahead of time to using that service (download/install/configure Messenger or WhatsApp or Signal or Telegram), where with iMessage, it just piggybacks on the standard Messages app, which will also do SMS to my Android-using friends without me having to specify anything special ahead of time.
Even worse - meh, just flip it and remove the ellipse. No one will notice.
You actually didn't say much of anything aside from "Apple's doing it wrong"
I never understood why iMessages needs to be on Android.
Right now if an Android users wants to message me... they send me an SMS text message. And I get it. And vice-versa.
I use the app called "Messages" on my iPhone... and if the person is another iPhone user the bubble is blue. Otherwise it's green. No extra effort required.
I don't really see the difference. The messages get sent and received.
I know iMessage offers extra features... but they're hardly necessary.
And like many other people said in this thread... there are plenty of other ways to message people. FaceBook Messenger, WhatsApp, even email.
There's no shortage of ways to talk to people. This is the easiest time in history to reach someone.
I never hear, "Bob isn't using XYZ Messenger... therefore he is unreachable!"
Agreed. And everybody has Facebook messenger. But it's really just to get in touch with people that you only talk to once every 5 years
Does anyone remember using "Adium" for all your chat needs. AIM, Google, ICQ, Jabber, VK, FB and others all in one program? I only had to keep one application to communicate with all my friends. Too bad this can't happen today on iOS.
I really want to know why so many companies are fighting over messaging apps. They give them out for free and there are no ads. Facebook bought WhatsApp for $20B and the service is free with no ads.
Something fishy here.
Let's see... As an iOS user, I use these messaging apps daily:
- iMessage/SMS
- Hangouts
I use these messaging apps multiple times a week:
- Steam
- Facebook Messenger
- Discord
- Skype
Then there is the seldom used Snapchat. So, I guess my point is that I consider myself to be an average person (and below-average social media user) and yet I still have to contend with many of these messaging apps on a daily basis.
Does anyone remember using "Adium" for all your chat needs. AIM, Google, ICQ, Jabber, VK, FB and others all in one program? I only had to keep one application to communicate with all my friends. Too bad this can't happen today on iOS.
There was a website called meebo.com that you login and you had a messenger as a tab in the browser and you can communicate with all other IM's. It was bought by Google.