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FREE iPhone-2-iPhone Messaging - Ping! is Blackberry messenger for iPhone& iPod Touch

PBF said:
Dude, your logic makes zero sense. If Ping! developers are able to offer a more enjoyable user interface and experience, why not charge for the app? Just because there are hundreds of free sudoku apps out there doesn't mean Electronic Arts may not charge for their beautiful sudoku app. :rolleyes:
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So your saying I should cough up and pay for this app when there is an app that does exactly the same thing just its free. Hmm, to me that doesn't make sense. It only makes sense when you are talking about games. In this case as long as the app fulfills the purpose and is relatively simple to use (as WhatsApp is) then free is better.

WhatsApp are now charging so that kinda ruins the point but whatever. It makes sense to me and is just my opinion so you don't have to agree.

anjinhamarota said:
WhatsApp is charging now.

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And this is exactly why I think too many apps like this coming out is not a good thing.
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Didn't realise they were charging now. Interesting.

Yeah too many of one kind of app is a bad thing and is kinda annoying. I bet the next person I meet with an iPhone will have some other iPhone to iPhone messenger. Grrrr...:rolleyes:
 
In my opinion, you need the following to make it great:
  • Buddy List
  • Need to actually approve friends, like on BBM, I miss that feature. Privacy is important here.
  • Delivered/Read/Typing status exactly like it is on BBM (this is easily the most popular feature on BBM
  • Enhanced UI. It looks to much like a "toy" right now. It needs to be slick and simple, very much similar to BBM.
  • When you get a push notification outside of the app, and then open the app it will vibrate again for those notifications. This happens with BeeJive too, but its very annoying.
  • The app crashed on me several times. Memory leaks? Idk how to duplicate, but it was simply while typing a short message
  • The box to enter your message is weird, and the colors for messages are a bit hard to read.

Good work so far, definitely a lot of room for growth.
 
sinsin07 said:
Nice App. We will soon have three to choose from. So far my money is on Ping! and WhatsApp, but who knows what the future will hold. The one with the best features, simplicity and speed should win out, that's what is good about competing apps. Those that are worried about to many apps like this, well all I can say is this is a free market, you can't stop it, all you can do is make your choice.

Keep up the good work though.
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It won't matter which app has the most features and which is the best app if all your friends have another one. That's my point. I don't mind if more apps come out, but if they do this will be nothing more than a very limited IM app.
 
I am starting to get really confused as to the need for the programs. I have WhatsApp as well and its nice, but I still don't understand why they exist since everyone has an instant messaging client already - AIM, YAHOO, MSN, GOOGLE, etc. Couple that with everyone of them has an app for the iPhone and there is even Beejive (which I use). Why duplicate an already free service?

Again, nobody has explained this. :confused:
 
So I downloaded this app after a friend at work told me about it. I'm alittle confused on how this app works. What connection is the iPhone using in order to send these messages through Ping!?
I just don't believe it is 100% free. These messages have to show up on your phone bill. Either it uses up your data or if you are connected to a Wi-Fi network then it's free. Someone explain or post a link I can read it all?

Thanks
Mike
 
mikeschmeee said:
So I downloaded this app after a friend at work told me about it. I'm alittle confused on how this app works. What connection is the iPhone using in order to send these messages through Ping!?
I just don't believe it is 100% free. These messages have to show up on your phone bill. Either it uses up your data or if you are connected to a Wi-Fi network then it's free. Someone explain or post a link I can read it all?

Thanks
Mike
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It uses data, like an IM app. It's a negligible amount of data though.
 
anjinhamarota said:
It won't matter which app has the most features and which is the best app if all your friends have another one. That's my point. I don't mind if more apps come out, but if they do this will be nothing more than a very limited IM app.
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If all my friends have another one I will just download that. I don't get it with you, you seem like your stuck on having just one and only one app. That's fine if this BBM software pans out that way. However if it doesn't and I have a set of friends with one and another set of friends with another I will just have both apps. It is not like it cost a whole lot of money. If this is too confusing for you, then just make sure your friends stick with one app. This won't be a problem for me. My friends are savvy enough to go with the one with the best features, even if we have to change apps.

Edit: I have 43 people on WhatsApp and 15 on Ping. Not a problem at all
 
sinsin07 said:
If all my friends have another one I will just download that. I don't get it with you, you seem like your stuck on having just one and only one app. That's fine if this BBM software pans out that way. However if it doesn't and I have a set of friends with one and another set of friends with another I will just have both apps. It is not like it cost a whole lot of money. If this is too confusing for you, then just make sure your friends stick with one app. This won't be a problem for me. My friends are savvy enough to go with the one with the best features, even if we have to change apps.

Edit: I have 43 people on WhatsApp and 15 on Ping. Not a problem at all
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It won't be that easy when the developers start charging for these apps (and they will, both of them have stated that). And what if I'm chatting with someone on Ping! and WhatsApp at the same time? What if another one comes out and I'm chatting on the three of them at the same time? Sounds great, huh? :rolleyes:

Also, my friends have other friends, family, boy/girlfriends who they may like to chat with and they might use a different app then what I use so i can't ask them to stick with an app just because of me. I have different groups of friends from different kind of places that don't all know each other, they might all use different ones, and most of them aren't very tech savvy, so they'll probably stick with the first one they use.

It's just 2 apps now, but more are coming out. It defeats the point of this. The point being the ability to talk to ANY iPhone for free, which is what BBM is for the Blackberry. If I'm going to need several apps for several groups of friends, what does this have over regular IM? At least on Beejive I can talk with people from different networks in one app.
 
anjinhamarota said:
It won't be that easy when the developers start charging for these apps (and they will, both of them have stated that). And what if I'm chatting with someone on Ping! and WhatsApp at the same time? What if another one comes out and I'm chatting on the three of them at the same time? Sounds great, huh? :rolleyes:

Also, my friends have other friends, family, boy/girlfriends who they may like to chat with and they might use a different app then what I use so i can't ask them to stick with an app just because of me. I have different groups of friends from different kind of places that don't all know each other, they might all use different ones, and most of them aren't very tech savvy, so they'll probably stick with the first one they use.

It's just 2 apps now, but more are coming out. It defeats the point of this. The point being the ability to talk to ANY iPhone for free, which is what BBM is for the Blackberry. If I'm going to need several apps for several groups of friends, what does this have over regular IM? At least on Beejive I can talk with people from different networks in one app.
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For me it is the features of one of them which I don't want to mention here, which no IM app has. This closely resembles the IM of Sametime. There is not going to be just one, for right now, so no amount of lamenting about how this is all going to get confusing will fix this. This is something former BB users have been wanting, and people will choose sides and will settle on what their crew is using. If you (not meaning you) find yourself on the outside, then it is a quick fix in the Appstore.
 
I really fail to see the point of these apps. It's bad enough you need 5 im accounts to talk to everyone, but do you really want 10 iphone to iphone messengers installed on your iphone as well for whatever one they bought.
 
intrepid00 said:
I really fail to see the point of these apps. It's bad enough you need 5 im accounts to talk to everyone, but do you really want 10 iphone to iphone messengers installed on your iphone as well for whatever one they bought.
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If you use Beejive or IM+ you can talk to everyone in just one app. I agree about having several iPhone messengers though. I have Ping!, seems to be the most popular so far, I hope it sticks.
 
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