Apple Releases Public Beta of New Messages App for OS X

[parkds]

Does anyone know if you can still do screen sharing and file transfers with the new Messages application?

 

[ihonda]

Works here and sync with iphone.

make sure to enter your me addy on iphone under message so it can be delivered at two places....

is yours back syncing or just present and so on.

 

[Ducky280]

Sweet, u can iMessage YOURSELF

So you can send Videos / Images to your iPhone/Ipad on the fly from your iMac etc

 

[I8P'CS]

I know I'll get down voted for this but is all about the money for apple, if the charge another £20 for another update & get the same figures for lion ape is winning. Yes £20 is cheap as you bought/are about to buy an expensive mac but all these things could of been implemented in Lion or given as a free update. Apple is taking advantage of the sheep, me included which I don't like.

Down me vote We are the ones spending huge amounts on apple products while apple gets the rewards.

 

[kemo]

it works well for me so far... I like the idea of getting my messages on my phone and my computer.

Any chances to add my MBP to the dev list? /joke

 

[ramz003]

is yours back syncing or just present and so on.

not back syncing.... just present as the messages come in

 

[sterumbelow]

Here's another download link incase the others aren't working (dropbox one is overwhelmed!)

http://www.mediafire.com/?0abii9tcnyn3wcn

 

[blastair]

Just got an email from dropbox; my public folder just got suspended due to "excess traffic." Ha! Good luck to all those who haven't gotten it yet.

 

[kemo]

Sweet, u can iMessage YOURSELF

So you can send Videos / Images to your iPhone/Ipad on the fly from your iMac etc

The only feature u've been missing since Lion? xD

 

[Daniel97]

Yeah okay great that i can finally do this from my Mac etc ..

BUT

How do i get it to download my message history?

Ive downloaded logged in etc and then just started imessaging my wife on my iphone .. nothing appeared on my Mac?

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Just got an email from dropbox; my public folder just got suspended due to "excess traffic." Ha! Good luck to all those who haven't gotten it yet.

lol you hero

 

[ramz003]

Yeah okay great that i can finally do this from my Mac etc ..

BUT

How do i get it to download my message history?

Ive downloaded logged in etc and then just started imessaging my wife on my iphone .. nothing appeared on my Mac?

make sure you have the email listed on your iphone to send to two locations.. the same you listed in the message app.

 

[Ducky280]

The only feature u've been missing since Lion? xD

lol no... Just handy... Not for images as photo stream does that but for vids its handy

 

[law684]

Do I have to have it open all the time to receive messages?

 

[JUiCEJamie]

WOW!!! AWESOME!!!

Direct link:

http://appldnld.apple.com/MessagesBeta/041-4274.20120216.z5km/MessagesBeta.dmg

Works perfectly! Thank you!

 

[ramz003]

Do I have to have it open all the time to receive messages?

You have to be logged in.... you can hide screen and it will bounce when new message arrives

 

[RTWG]

Where do I send feedback?

 

[nfl46]

It works great!

I am waiting on my iPad 3 now, lol. 3 weeks away!

iPhone + iPad + Macbook = MUST haves!

 

[Daniel97]

You have to be logged in.... you can hide screen and it will bounce when new message arrives

hide how? - just close the application and it sits open in the tray?

 

[kemo]

Is really the only way of getting ML through the App Store? There is no .dmg that will be upped somewhere publicly?

Sorry, I meant ML, not Messages.

 

[andimaciphone]

Direct Download Link

As posted by others here is the direct download link.

http://appldnld.apple.com/MessagesBe...ssagesBeta.dmg

 

[kemo]

It works great!

I am waiting on my iPad 3 now, lol. 3 weeks away!

iPhone + iPad + Macbook = MUST haves!

you are a dev or is there any other way of getting ML?

Sorry, I meant ML, not Messages.

 

[mysticalos]

It might be me, but I see this as a first sign that Apple is preparing it's current Mac software for tablet devices. Maybe, just maybe, we are going to see an iPad in 2013 or 2014 running Mac OS X.

No, by then we'll have a mac running iOS.

 

[DouchGod]

Anyone else having issues logging into the beta app?

 

[kemo]

No, by then we'll have a mac running iOS.

I guess so, because I cant imagine OS XI or so...just iOS would do the job.

 

[parish]

How about finally putting out an iBooks reader for OSX?? Kind of ridiculous that I can't read the Steve Jobs biography on my Mac...

I'd like to see that too. Seems an odd situation given that OS X/iOS integration is a key feature of Apple's future plans