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Do you guys think iMessage could ever achieve the type of penetration as BBM?
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Kind of but I don't really understand this feature.
It made sense when Blackberries first came out, but these days it seems odd to limit a program to one platform. It's what's keeping Facetime from being super-popular, after all.
I'm not sure why Apple thought this was a good idea.
It made sense when Blackberries first came out, but these days it seems odd to limit a program to one platform. It's what's keeping Facetime from being super-popular, after all.
I'm not sure why Apple thought this was a good idea.
Yes it is nowhere near dead but it is losing market share left and right if not to Apple then to Andriod.
ok lets be real... this will never take off.. first the name is a fail.. should have been rebranded to ichat (much coller) since facetime is new camera app.. second ios may have 40 million customers but lets be serious move ppl who own the ipad have the wifi only version and the ipod touch is wifi only so must ppl probably will not be around a wifi area to even use it..
i love my work BB 9780 but you need to take off your rim fanboy glasses too. RIM might not be dead but it is slowly bleeding out. More and more corporations are approving iOS and Android devices for corp. enterprise use. Consumers are happily leaving RIM. And looking at their future "new" devices, why in buy a new BB? The 9900/9930 is the same thing, same as the torch 2, or monaco. Their new phones suck. Blackberry OS "7" is just OS 6 renamed OS 7. It's pretty pathetic. There is no benefit of using a BB besides emailing & enterprise.
I wonder if we are gonna see imessage become cross platform eventually. Facetime was supposed to be the standard and I wonder if there is going to be a app for android and windows phones that will eventually let everyone message everyone.... Just a thought
dont know about that. I hv wifi all day long. Work + home is the majority of time you spend throughout the day. I would love to text from my ipad rather than my iphone. Also now it lets you text people with itouchs too. again many people have wifi. I know ill be using it to text my gf while shes at school and has horrible cell reception but wifi readily available.
That's exactly what's going to kill RIM now. Can you imagine their emergency meeting now? Wouldn't want to be in that room.
I can tell you that I'm ditching my texting plan from at&t. Everyone I text most of the time are iPhone users. Love it. On the rare occasion I text someone on non-Apple device I'll pay the nominal fee.
It will have a lot of use I am sure. It's integrated right into the Text Messaging app. My guess is that it'll have a way to look up whether the user is an iPhone user and if they are send it via the new iBBM stuff, then if not, send a text message.
It will get a lot of use, especially in households where there are several iPhones. I have a bunch of friends that use iPhones, it'll clearly get a ton of use from me.
It was exactly what I was looking for, I think for the most part I'll be able to get rid of my unlimited texting and go with the $10/1000 msg plan instead.
It will get a lot of use, especially in households where there are several iPhones. I have a bunch of friends that use iPhones, it'll clearly get a ton of use from me.
It was exactly what I was looking for, I think for the most part I'll be able to get rid of my unlimited texting and go with the $10/1000 msg plan instead.
"Add me to iMessage" doesn't have the same ring as "add me to BBM"
also, cue deep penetration joke
also, cue deep penetration joke
Agree, I can drop unlimited for sure too. A good 75% of my friends have iPhones.
i don't have any RIM fanboy glasses, i could care less about either platform. i use what works and don't care who is making it. but i don't like see inaccurate statements being made so i point them out when i see it.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8G4 Safari/6533.18.5)
I don't know. On the surface, it looks cool, but limiting it to iOS users is odd. For those of us who have the majority of their friends on non- iOS platforms, this really adds nothing. But it will certainly cut down on text costs for everyone else.
I don't know. On the surface, it looks cool, but limiting it to iOS users is odd. For those of us who have the majority of their friends on non- iOS platforms, this really adds nothing. But it will certainly cut down on text costs for everyone else.
