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Do you guys think iMessage could ever achieve the type of penetration as BBM?
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iMessage will be used a lot because it's cross devices. I can be on my iPhone and send a message to my fiancee who happens to be on her iPad at home. She'd get it. Now, you don't need to be on a phone to get "BBM".
Group messaging? Hell yeah.
Honestly, a lot of my friends haven't switched from BB because of how much they love BBM. They now how no reason (besides physical vs virtual keyboard).
But iphone is getting that new keyboard or something right? Or was that just ipad
Honestly, a lot of my friends haven't switched from BB because of how much they love BBM. They now how no reason (besides physical vs virtual keyboard).
But iphone is getting that new keyboard or something right? Or was that just ipad
Weird. It's immensely popular in The Netherlands. I don't know about other countries though. But "texting" (or the Dutch equivalent of this) has literally been replaced by "Whatsapping". Even my mom and dad have it.
Perhaps. I also think that pretty much everyone in the US has unlimited texting, that's not available in The Netherlands.
Right. There are times I am using my iPad and would like to text somebody and then have to go pull out my iPhone for that. This way if they have an iOS device I can still chat with them from from iPad. So I do see some uses here.
Does iMessage have any options to send a message received on an iPhone as SMS into an iMessage message that is sent to the other devices (and vice versa)? That would be real cool but we did not get those kind of details yet.
Messages uses your cellular network/data and it counts towards text message. iMessage will work as long as you have data or a wi-fi connection, it won't count towards text message usage.
No. It's one app.
See here
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html#imessage
"iMessages is built into the Message app"
How is this a good idea when Whatsapp works with Symbian, Android, Windows and iOS?
iMessage is free.
Whatsapp is my number 1 used app, but i still think iMessage is great. Not everybody who has an iphone will have whatsapp anyway.
Just remember. People are less likely to download an app for something their phone already does... especially when the built in app is better looking and better to use. If iMessages is in fact better looking (which the screen shots indicate in my opinion) and the app is better to use (which is debatable at this point since no one has used it) then the paid app will likely not be very popular.
iMessages will be quite popular among iPhone users.. pretty much a given there. I expect to use it daily.
iMessages will be quite popular among iPhone users.. pretty much a given there. I expect to use it daily.
nobody uses ichat...especially since facetime has been out. They could have rebranded this ichat and even incorporated it into chatting from osx to ios devices ...
This will be big among iPhone & iPad owners.
You can't compare this to Facetime. Most people are too shy to Facetime and more often than not it's too inconvenient and non discreet to Facetime. iMessage is completely different. Texting is already the norm, and to have something that's integrated and won't count towards your carrier's sms plan is a huge plus.
You can't compare this to Facetime. Most people are too shy to Facetime and more often than not it's too inconvenient and non discreet to Facetime. iMessage is completely different. Texting is already the norm, and to have something that's integrated and won't count towards your carrier's sms plan is a huge plus.
Gee, I must be the few that still uses iChat and I've probably used FaceTime 2-3 times. They COULD HAVE integrated iMessage to work across OS X and iOS but they didn't want to.
If Apple had merely added AIM/Gchat/Yahoo/etc. support and called it iMessage instead of this single-platform crapfest I would have loved them forever.
But unfortunately they missed the mark again.
I don't have many friends who use iPhones; most of my friends are Android users (we have an uneasy truce ) so this is pretty useless to me. Cross-platform is the way of the future, WAKE UP APPLE you were starting to head that way and now are pulling back.
But unfortunately they missed the mark again.
I don't have many friends who use iPhones; most of my friends are Android users (we have an uneasy truce
) so this is pretty useless to me. Cross-platform is the way of the future, WAKE UP APPLE you were starting to head that way and now are pulling back.So there is:
- iChat (OSX only, no video/audio)
- iMessage (iOS only, no video/audio)
- Facetime (OSX and iOS, but only video/audio)
Doesn't it feel like there's a need for merging these three products? Or will I constantly need to check if the person I want to communicate with is currently using a Mac or a iOS device, and if their iOS device has a camera?
- iChat (OSX only, no video/audio)
- iMessage (iOS only, no video/audio)
- Facetime (OSX and iOS, but only video/audio)
Doesn't it feel like there's a need for merging these three products? Or will I constantly need to check if the person I want to communicate with is currently using a Mac or a iOS device, and if their iOS device has a camera?