Oh, so is that why BlackBerry made it's own BBM app cross-platform? Ooops.
They did it because nobody uses it, and they're an irrelevant company.
Oh, so is that why BlackBerry made it's own BBM app cross-platform? Ooops.
This can tell that you don't know anything about iMessage. It's an automated process that with iMessage enabled, your idevice will detect and automatically switch to iMessage (blue bubbles) for iDevices instead of carrier SMS (green bubbles). So, tell me why on earth one needs to disable iMessage since it's secured, seamless, and free.
]First of all BBM did exist outside of BBOS. I used BIS and BBM on Sony Ericsson UIQ OS back in 2008.[/B] So now that we got that out of the way this is actually a serious issue here.
Apple should buy BB and then dissolve it.![]()
They did it because nobody uses it, and they're an irrelevant company.
No you're wrong; that is partial truth.
BES existed on UIQ and on S60 for 2 devices each Nokia Communicator (2nd gen and on the 9300i), and on SonyEricsson (SE) p900 and P990i (not an official support from BlackBerry).
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This allowed you to SEND/RECEIVE Emails, Sync CONTACTS/CALENDAR/NOTES/TASKS.
This allowed you on the 2nd iteration:
RECEIVE PIN messages ... NOT BBM Chats.
you could NOT SEND PIN messages.
BBM NEVER EVER EXISTED on ANY OTHER PLATFORM!
- and with blackberry.com/btsc public tech docs I can PROVE you wrong!
Their relevant ONLY in Security, Mobile Networking, and in IoT (in it's infantile stage).
I love BlackBerry BES and what they provided for me as an income structure in the past ... but I make NO EXCUSES ANY LONGER for BlackBerry! (check my previous posts across the boards fighting the wrong fight)
Mic dropped ... kicked ... walked off stage!
As a Canadian living near the BB buildings, I would like to remind everyone that BB does not represent the composite intellectual might of Canadians. We do not endorse the comments of BB, and do not subscribe to the "speak first learn later" PR methodology.
Thank you.
Which makes no sense whatsoever. Oh, it does if your a fanboy.
In Chen's view, all apps and content should be available on all platforms
But Steve Jobs himself said that Apple was going to open-source Facetime:
"We're going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we're going to make FaceTime an open industry standard."
... but it never happened.
You must have failed reading comprehension
They don't need to. Its all NFC. The only difference is the backend processing. Why the heck would Apple open their back end to Android which is chockablock with malware and trojans?
Edit: and ANYONE can buy an Apple Watch, iPhone or not. YOU just done get ALL of the features.
If it seamlessly switches to SMS, why should I care about iMessage support in the first place?
Typical from a bottom of the barrel company trying to stay relevant........
Yeah, because all the Blackberry shareholders would surely vote for that.... not
Except that they stopped being relevant like 4 or 5 years ago.
They did it because nobody uses it, and they're an irrelevant company.
With this logic, all applications should be forced to be ported over to TempleOS, which I'm pretty sure only has a single user (the guy who made it).
Bad comparison. iMessage isn't anything like a drive shaft. A drive shaft serves a purpose in a particular vehicle, but there's no real advantage (other than replacement parts cost) to two cars having the same drive shaft. Cars don't couple to one another so that the drive shaft on one car drives both of them.
By contrast, iMessage does nothing in isolation. What makes it useful is its ability to take content that the user creates (text messages) and exchange those messages with other pieces of software running on other people's devices. Thus, mandating that the iMessage protocol be an open standard is much closer to mandating a common charging standard for electric vehicles (which the government has done).
Additionally, users of a drive shaft aren't locking their creative works into the sole custody of a drive shaft. With iMessage and FaceTime, users are creating a copyrighted work (yes, text messages and video chat sessions are protected by copyright) and using those technologies to send that work to another person. With closed standards, a single company has the ability to dictate what users can and can't do with content that they created. That's morally and ethically wrong.
IMO, all protocols and file formats should be open standards, by law, including iMessage, FaceTime, etc. I've spent way more time than I'd like reverse-engineering closed file formats so that I can extract my own creative works from the grips of companies that have dropped support for products and/or gone out of business. I really want to live in a world where nobody else ever has to go through that in the future.