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BlackBerry CEO Says U.S. Government Should Force Apple to Expand iMessage to Other Platforms

tresmith said:
granted i get the irony of BB asking that Apple open up imessage after how they handled BBM but they might be right.

BB's missteps with BBM should be a warning to Apple that having a closed messaging system might not be the best thing.

there could be benefits for apple...opening imessage could potentially bring iOS more customers. much like what itunes did for the mac. Also it slow down the adoption and growth of other messaging apps.

if apple wanted to turn the messaging business on it's head it would release a whatsapp-like messaging client, compatible with imessage, to all the other platforms.

by the time bbm didn't it, it was too little too late.

I believe that messaging should be an open platform much like email. I like the idea of not having to worry about what platform i'm using to talk to people.
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and one more thing...Apple could merge imessage and facetime and really give consumers an all in one communication client.

but unfortunately, Apple is a hardware company and I surmise that they veiw giving other platforms free software would hurt their hardware business.

making itunes cross platform, if anything, should debunk that notion.
 
The people I know that have moved to Android from iOS all say the same thing, the only thing they're going to miss is iMessage. We learn pretty quickly how to live without it though.

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scottct1 said:
if I remember correctly, when Steve Jobs introduced imessage and Facetime he said it was going to be an open platform. What happened to that?
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I think he said FaceTime would be open, but never did for iMessage.
 
Freyqq said:
This makes no sense. All platforms? Every linux distro? The number of platforms available are increasing by the day.
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Haha. Even worse, I'm pretty sure a lot of college CS classes have students make their own OSs, or at least they did in the past. I don't think MS Word will ever be ported to any of them, so GG.
 
fallenjt said:
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.
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Because I get unlimited SMS, but not unlimited data?
 
It is kind of ridiculous given how BBM operated for so many years. That said, i'm more concerned with Apple's apparent stance on net neutrality
 
taptic said:
Because the government forcing things makes everyone happy!
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You did not get it.


The proponents of FREE market at any cost are hypocrites!
They are the first to call a government to help them.
Back in the days, they even call for wars.
 
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Seriously, if I were the app developer, what's stopping me from simply devoting the minimum amount of time required to create a joke app which did nothing or crashed often? You want an app for blackberry, you got an app, I just didn't promise that it would work...
 
Wait, was't BlackBerry just bad mouthing iMessage about how much "Spam" it has, and say how BBM doesn't have that?

Now they want it on their platform? BlackBerry, you're dead. You failed to stay relevant.

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attila said:
Actually, Rolls Royce use BMW engines, as an example...
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BMW owns, or has ownership over Rolls-Royce, last time I checked. So that is totally different, they aren't rivals.

Not that BlackBerry is much of a rival to Apple now.
 
Abazigal said:
Seriously, if I were the app developer, what's stopping me from simply devoting the minimum amount of time required to create a joke app which did nothing or crashed often? You want an app for blackberry, you got an app, I just didn't promise that it would work...
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How about your reputation? If you're an app developer, do you want to be known is an incompetent one?
 
occollegeboi420 said:
Well you just contradicted yourself. The NFC chip in your iphone 6 means NOTHING without apple pay. You need to use Apple Pay in order to use the nfc chip.

And you just proved that you need to have an iphone in order to take advantage of all features in the apple watch. You essentially need to buy 2 different products just so one of them can fully function. Fail.

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All the people who switched from ios to android and didn't disable iMessage were not getting text messages from their friends with iphones because apple servers still thinks that your phone is connected to iMessage when it is actually not.

The way apple does iMessage is stupid. There was a class action lawsuit with iMessage.
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not worth the time it will take to answer you.
 
sorry to say but Blackberry should died already.

when i first starting using my first phone 11 years ago, I chose the ATT V60 flip one over the little mini keyboard of the blackberry cuz it was a dumb idea. how can anyone type in that keyboard on the little phone unless you have kid's side hand. it was ridiculous.

i went through a couple of flip phones until the first iphone introduced and i said to myself that IT IS THE PHONE. It is still THE PHONE today even if it's missing a few minor features here and there.

IP6 is the one that will last for a while so blackberry, good luck.
 
The privileged few

Next thing you know BB is going to cry "the privileged few" and whine that they are entitled to everything Apple and Google own
 
occollegeboi420 said:
Same thing with apple pay. if Apple really wanted to make apple pay available for more people they would make an Apple pay app for android. But instead they make everything proprietary.
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The main reason banks and financial institutions went with ApplePay is because its so secure with TouchID & the use of tokens. Some Android phones have something similar but poor implementation.
 
Free Market

It amazes me how short sighted people can be and how easily people are willing to throw away a free market by asking the government to take over and regulate yet another aspect of economic autonomy. It's like listening and watching the five year old brat tattle to his parents because another kid does something better, and their response is to call that mean. Try as you no doubt will, but you are still an inadequate platform blackberry, and no government regulation is going to change that unless you as a company start innovating again. Grow up children.
 
crosseyedbum said:
It amazes me how short sighted people can be and how easily people are willing to throw away a free market by asking the government to take over and regulate yet another aspect of economic autonomy. It's like listening and watching the five year old brat tattle to his parents because another kid does something better, and their response is to call that mean. Try as you no doubt will, but you are still an inadequate platform blackberry, and no government regulation is going to change that unless you as a company start innovating again. Grow up children.
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Kind of agree here. It would be nice if Apple opened up iMessage but I get why they don't. Apple is very tight about their stuff and loves it when their stuff is Proprietary. It can be annoying but I understand why they do it. I don't always like it but I get it.
 
there are so many better messaging apps out there other iMessage. Not need for it to be available on all platforms. I don't even use it on iPhone 6 because I use whatsapp or hangouts.
 
"Derp, Blackberry is an inferior product that no one wants anymore so let's get the state to make everyone else's stuff, you know the ones that people want to buy instead of ours, just as bad as Blackberry's!"

Your product sucks, either make a better one or go out of business.
 
Rim is a bunch of cry babies, I mean when they were the only game in town, they did not roll out their apps to Palm Treo? or Android?

Now that they are bleeding to death they are looking for some rare hopes that Apple (the ones they bashed would never make it) allow their iMessage apps on their old out of date devices.

Rim just needs to call it quits and focus on their BES software, that is the only bright spot left in their eyes.
 
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