"you can send text, photos, vid....etc" text, does that mean SMS on the iPad? What we recon? SMS to other phones from the iPad using iMessages?
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from my understanding, it uses internet (3g or wifi) to send messages, so it kind of messenger, not SMS and it only works among iOS devices!
I wonder how this is going to detect users. Is it going to use a pin number like BBM? or your iTunes Apple Name? or combination? I have an email set up specifically for my iTunes. would I have to give that info out to friends for them to message me on my wifi only ipad?
I hope it's not email related. I really hope it's like BBM where you get a pin. I don't want to start giving out my work/private email to all my friends.
Whatsapp charges a yearly service fee after a year (at least on android). I say nuts to them. Apple is gonna do it better, integrated and for free.
There's a free app called textie that does this over wifi, but it's nice to have an official one from apple
Except for one small detail. Whatsapp works with ios, Android and blackberry where ibbm works only on ios. I have Android phone and an iPad.
And don't tell me to get an iPhone
Only as long as you have a data plan (which I can't imagine having an iPhone without one).
I'd imagine they'll follow the Facetime model where you can link it to multiple email addresses. Work friends use your work email, personal friends use your personal email.
Integrated is the key. I know lots of people with iPhones and not one with whatsapp. BBM is so big because everyone has it, no extra work needed.
The least Apple could do for all these people who's apps they've rendered useless is buy them or something, or at least hire the developer like they did with the Notifier guy. What's the guy from Instapaper supposed to do now? I know his service works in other areas, but iOS was HUGE use case for him.
Eh, whatever...
Eh, whatever...
I understand, but at the same time that's the risk one takes in providing a derivative product that adds usability features to a platform.
The platform owner can (and likely will) include popular features/capabilities in new product versions, eliminating the market for the derivative product developer.
Apple already made him money. He's going to have to adapt to the existing platform like everyone else.
What most good developers do: come up with new ideas and new apps.
It's never a good business model to just stand still and expect to keep making money off a single product forever. Eventually others will compete, and sometimes they'll do it in ways that makes your original, unchanged idea no longer saleable. So, you keep making new things, and staying ahead.
The other option is to patent the idea and become a patent troll.
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It's a shame they didn't integrate this with iChat, and release a version of iChat for windows users
It could have been even more of a killer app then!
It could have been even more of a killer app then!