How do iMessage Groups work?

It seems that you just enter in the name of somebody and Apple automatically detects whether they can use iMessage. If you try to iMessage multiple people, I don't think creating a chat room is possible. iMessage basically saves you money by not making you text when you can send your data through 2G/3G or Wifi. I don't believe there is anything else it does. The user doesn't even notice the difference between iMessage and texting.

 

Haven't seen in but wouldn't seeing how it's integrated with the Message app, wouldn't a "group" chat be just sending a message to multiple recipients? I don't see how it could be done any other way because iMessage doesn't have a standalone app like BBM. Right now, iMessage is just that, a way to save you money and is very raw and doesn't really do what BBM does, at least not yet.

 

IDK, not that many people can use iMessage that i know yet. I wish I could use it more

 

Group messaging is in fact as you hoped, OP. I saw a video of it running. It is basically a multi-person instant chat. Its different then a group text as thats an outgoing broadcast only. When people respond it only comes back to the sender, not the group.

With group messaging, all participants see all messages simultaneously.

 

I have tested iMessage and its group feature out a lot.
It has to be said, that you can't give the group a name (yes you can add a subject to each message you send, but it's far from the same) and you can't add people to a group. You have to create a new group and add everyone again. And if you change your "name" from number to email, then the group splits into two messages in your inbox, kinda weird.