The question is, when is Apple making Facetime an open standard as they said im its release
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The question is, when is Apple making Facetime an open standard as they said im its release
Bad comparison. Google has never been in the hardware business.
As a matter of fact... Google only develops Android so that people will use their services... Which allows them to collect more personal information about those people... So they can sell more ads... And THAT is where Google's profit comes from.
Blackberry IS a hardware company... and they have been losing market share year after year. So like I said... Yes it is bad news when a hardware company is putting their software on competing hardware.
As a matter of fact... Google only develops Android so that people will use their services... Which allows them to collect more personal information about those people... So they can sell more ads... And THAT is where Google's profit comes from.
Blackberry IS a hardware company... and they have been losing market share year after year. So like I said... Yes it is bad news when a hardware company is putting their software on competing hardware.
From all the people I know who used a BlackBerry, only one old lady still has one, because she's used to texting very fast using the small keyboard in it. She also has an iPhone 5, but still she texts faster using her BB.
When FaceTime became the hit that it is... they quickly swept that promise under the rug and never mentioned it again.
Could someone please explain what the merits of using BBM instead of iMessages are? I understand why I would choose say, Facebook chat (but I don't choose it,) but I can't figure out what on earth BBM has that iMessages doesn't.
iMessages is already compatible enough with my nonexistant Blackberry using peers - it'll detect their inferior product and send them an MMS instead.
iMessages is already compatible enough with my nonexistant Blackberry using peers - it'll detect their inferior product and send them an MMS instead.
How about Microsoft then?
Outlook.com gets Google Talk support, rolling out worldwide this week.
Seems to me that other companies understand that not everyone uses just their devices and people want to communicate on other platforms. Seems like a pretty smart approach to customer service.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/14/4327206/outlook-com-google-talk-support-rolling-out
Where are the BlackBerry experts to tell us that our phones don't have BBM now?
Is there any real reason to buy a BlackBerry anymore, if there even was one before?
Among office employees they are a lot of benefits. Not only that the free messaging between blackberries cuts down cost in countries where they don't offer unlimited text plan.
They are are boring phones though. No good apps or games.
Surprised that came through... considering that it's near impossible to tell whether a message has been delivered properly or not when using iMessage since it's so garbage when it doesn't work properly
That's what whatsapp is for. Whatsapp goes across all platforms. Even low cost nokia phones have whatsapp.
If they had done this years ago, it could have made a difference. It's way too late now though. I live in Canada, where BBM was huge, but I don't even know anyone who uses Blackberry's anymore.
Funny thing is, the only person I know who has a BlackBerry is my dad... which he got from his business. He has an iPhone for personal use.
in the corporate world this is true
Ironic. I never have those issues in the 2 years I've been using iMessage on a daily basis. Every single person I text now owns an iPhone, so I no longer send any texts. And the rare times iMessage has issues with me (mostly due to low reception), it autoswitches to SMS seamlessly.
So I'm confused about all these so-called issues with iMessage that I keep hearing parroted on this forum. Sometimes I wonder if its real, or just mindless parrots repeating what they hear other people say.
Untrue. It only works on phones. We still, to this day, don't have an enterprise class messaging protocol that works across all the major platforms. Everyone has their niche. I'd love to see a modern replacement for text messages that works universally, and on non-phone devices.
I wonder what their business model is here?
Are they going to get metrics and sell the data to advertisers?
I'm glad to get that App but I don't think it will come for free. It might even sell for $5.00 or more.
I guess I would get it to talk to all of my BBM buddies who have not made the switch to an iPhone yet.
It's a savings compared to the ridiculous cost of SMSing. It could also steal some thunder from What's App.
Are they going to get metrics and sell the data to advertisers?
I'm glad to get that App but I don't think it will come for free. It might even sell for $5.00 or more.
I guess I would get it to talk to all of my BBM buddies who have not made the switch to an iPhone yet.
It's a savings compared to the ridiculous cost of SMSing. It could also steal some thunder from What's App.
I think this is at least 3 years too late for BB, but I still think BBM is superior to iMessage and whatsapp in terms of reliability which is to me the most important aspect.
In all of my years using BBM I never had a message not delivered and when you got a message after turning on your phone it showed the correct timestamp every time.
The same cannot be said about the alternatives. If they had released BBM for iphones 3 years ago it would be the standard messaging platform. Today its DOA.
