It's the main way I speak to my long distance girlfriend. I text her at work as my iPad is in my bag, not on my desk, but other than that we mainly use iMessage.
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Apple to Apple iMessage - Anyone use it?
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I have my coworker's and friends email addresses in my contacts under thier phone numbers. I just select their email address instead of the phone number to send them a message. Not that difficult.
I find that strange and a tad OCD, as would most of my friends. Phone numbers are good enough. Don't need their whole life in my phone. It's tedious and should be unnecessary. Their email addys get saved in my gmail if I need them.
Works fine for me. Of course my mom, stepmom, dad, cousin, roommate, all my friends I hang out with locally all have iphones at least
.And basically everyone I text save one person has an iphone.
So I like imessage since I don't pay for a texting plan and it's nice to be able to let them text me at my number rather than a different one I use from an app.
Yup I use it every day to communicate with my girlfriend as she has an iPad too. As long as you have iOS 5 friends it is really useful feature, especially when you have Messages on iMac as well.
I didn't know you could get the messages on your iMac. Did you get it from the app store or was it already installed?
Everyone is different. I keep pretty much all my contact information in my iphone and ipad. I use gmail for calendar and email and pretty much only access them from my iphone and ipad (rarely actually log into gmail on the web) since they sync with my phone/ipad email and calendars.
You don't email your friends, family and coworkers stuff from time to time? I would prefer to have all the information in one location so I don't have to log into Gmail to access email accounts that I could have accessed right from the contacts app on my phone/ipad.
But like I said, to each their own.
I never use iMessage from my iPad, I'm one of those people that keep their iPhones on them EVERYWHERE they go.
IMessage gives me a convenient way to keep in contact with my American friends from here in Australia most other chat mediums require us to be online at the same time, but with iMessage we can send messages anytime and know the other will get it when they turn their device on next.
most other chat mediums require us to be online at the same time, but with iMessage we can send messages anytime and know the other will get it when they turn their device on next.It's clunky for me, the messages don't sync up at all, I can only see what has ever been sent on the ipad, where as my macbook syncs up fine.
In your phone's settings you can create a separate account just for imessage.
check that out or see Apples imessage faq
The beauty of iMessage is that if I had a conversation going on my iPhone and then I go pick up my iPad, the conversation is already there. I can just continue on as I was on the phone. When I get messages from other iStuff, they show up on both devices simultaneously. I think it's terrific. Also, I have the 1,000 texts per month plan, so iMessage really helps me to not go over the limit.
Why wouldn't you have someone's e-mail saved in your contacts???? What's awkward is having a an address book with no addresses. Use it as it was intended and everything will work nicely. Use the fields supplied in the contacts app, they aren't there just to look pretty.
For example, I also add birthdates to all of my contacts. They show up nicely in my calendar and I don't have to manage birthdays in some other application.
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I use it all the time. I refuse to pay AT&T for text messages. Text messages are the BIGGEST ripoff and it's only a matter of time before the carriers are faced with the end if this gravy train.
I use it all the time. I refuse to pay AT&T for text messages. Text messages are the BIGGEST ripoff and it's only a matter of time before the carriers are faced with the end if this gravy train.
I don't use it. Don't know a single person who does. And I don't like being locked into something that can only be used on a single ecosystem. So I have other forms of messaging that allows me, family, friends and coworkers reach each other regardless of platform.
For texts I use google voice. It's free and no one else is required to have the app. And there are other apps such as touch, whatsapp and kik that work on multiple platforms as well.
I do not have a texting plan through my carrier.
For texts I use google voice. It's free and no one else is required to have the app. And there are other apps such as touch, whatsapp and kik that work on multiple platforms as well.
I do not have a texting plan through my carrier.
So you don't know a single person with an iphone? If you do, they are using it. I don't see how you are "locked" in to anything. It's an option to message people using an iPad or iPod with someone with an iPhone and if you have an iPhone it's a free message to other iOS devices.
I know a lot of people with an iphone. No one uses it.
I also know people on android, blackberry and WP7. So i'd rather use an app/service that reaches all of them. And they feel the same way. Instead of using one app to reach some people, another to reach other people and so on.
If I used it i'm locked into only reaching other ios devices for free texting.
Google voice works the best as it's free and you can text anyone and receive texts from anyone and not pay a single cent. Works on any device, no one else has to have the app.
Touch and Whatsapp work on any device. KiK works on all but blackberry.
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Curious as to the reasoning behind why people would want to turn off iMessage. It's automatic and doesn't change a single thing when texting people.
If you want free texting and you want to reach people on devices other than ios then you have to use something else. Simple as that.
agreed. Since the release of iMessage i removed text messaging from my cell phone plan. all of my close friends and family have iOS devices. I like being able to hold a text conversation on my phone then pick up right where i left off on the iPad. and now Messages for the mac? its great!
So they don't have a texting plan and want free texts,(which imessage gives you) and need to use something else?
imessage only gives you free texts to other ios devices. Not everyone uses ios devices.