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[MERGED] iMessage down?

I didn't text a lot today. Only with one person, but I started having issues around 2:30 EST. It seemed ok later in the day today. Mine has been hit or miss with the iPhone 5 and especially since Hurricane Sandy. But it seems there are certainly more issues lately even before the hurricane. And the M-Cell thing is annoying too.
 
iMessage: still worse than AIM. Also unstable, and it only works on a few OSs but works great in iOS.
Google Chat: still worse than AIM. Doesn't work well with iChat.
Skype: still way, way worse than AIM. Doesn't work with iChat.
SMS: still way, way, way worse than AIM and super expensive. Should result in lawsuits for price collusion.
MSN: Terrible.

AIM: best messaging system, always works, and it's made by a trash company. WTF????

Can't anyone get it right?
 
wordoflife said:
And what happened before iMessages? The carriers had them.Makes no difference.

I doubt Apple cares anymore than cell carriers do of what are in our messages, if they should care at all. And if I remember correctly, iMessages are more encrypted than SMS.
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The difference is this:
- iMessage is global, cross-carrier, and centralised.
- iMessages is a closed, proprietary protocol. There are vague references to security but in actual fact we have no idea if Apple has access to them.

Private messages are an important commodity these days ... a lot of companies are working hard to capture this market ... Skype, Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc ...
 
faroZ06 said:
iMessage: still worse than AIM. Also unstable, and it only works on a few OSs but works great in iOS.
Google Chat: still worse than AIM. Doesn't work well with iChat.
Skype: still way, way worse than AIM. Doesn't work with iChat.
SMS: still way, way, way worse than AIM and super expensive. Should result in lawsuits for price collusion.
MSN: Terrible.

AIM: best messaging system, always works, and it's made by a trash company. WTF????

Can't anyone get it right?
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AOL has had about a 10 year head start with AIM.
 
moodler said:
The difference is this:
- iMessage is global, cross-carrier, and centralised.
- iMessages is a closed, proprietary protocol. There are vague references to security but in actual fact we have no idea if Apple has access to them.

Private messages are an important commodity these days ... a lot of companies are working hard to capture this market ... Skype, Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc ...
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Nothing will replace BBM...that for me was the reason I stuck with blackberry for so long. Blackberry's messaging system is the best I've ever used. The problem was a lot of friends starting switching to iphone (some android) and my list of about 75 contacts slowly declined to about 10.

I wish BB would license out bbm and make it available on all platforms.

Anyway, my imessage seems to be working but some people I message reply and it comes from their email and it basically makes a new thread. So it shows that person's name on one and their email on another. Idk if that's on my end or theirs
 
Déjà vu...Déjà vu...Déjà vu...Déjà vu...

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iMessage Fix

Anyone having the issues with iMessage activating, I found the following helped.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRNzXReLV44

I first followed the steps on the video, and it didn't work. So then I signed out of Messages on OSX Mountain Lion, and turned off iMessage on my iPad. Followed the video instructions again and it worked.

Some videos and Apple forums suggested Resetting network setting too, which I also had tried previous to fixing.

My issue was that I turned iMessage off thinking it was just a basic reset, but then I had the waiting for activation problem.
 
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iMessage still broken. 1010pm, California. It's been a long day. I wonder how many people will leave their iMessage accounts deactivated, and never re-sign in...
I was able to iMessage myself, however my girlfriend right next to me, was unable to send any iMessage to me. It even says that the message was delivered on her phone. :(
 
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Reaktor5 said:
AOL has had about a 10 year head start with AIM.
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Yeah, AIM was a perfect chat system TEN YEARS AGO and Google/Apple can't make something that is at least on par or better? It's laughable. I wish my networks still used AIM, it worked with file transfer, chat rooms, multiple machines logged on at once, etc. Oh, the old days...
 
TrickyBAM said:
iMessage still broken. 1010pm, California. It's been a long day. I wonder how many people will leave their iMessage accounts deactivated, and never re-sign in...
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Mine fixed itself at midnight. Wonder if you have to wait until midnight when the date switches. Just a guess.
 
Just got iMessage working on my Cell number again on Verizon. Now I am waiting for Facetime to...
Correction Facetime is now working through my cell number again!
 
Dear Apple,

Just stop. You seriously have no idea when it comes to cloud services. iMessage made it a whole 14 days before having yet another outage, and I'm sure we'll get a mail and facetime outage within the next month.

Outsource it to companies who specialise in cloud platforms such as Microsoft, Amazon or Google. All three of these companies provide a reliable cloud service.

Focus on making kick ass computers, and not messing around with your fake 1-datacenter cloud.

Regards,

Everyone.
(P.S Your services are still slow as hell from Europe)
 
Apple you really are now pissing people off for not investing some of your huge pile of cash on the correct and proper cloud servers. Stop playing at cloud and please for gods sake get a grip!
 
iMessage was always a terrible idea.

I have no idea why Apple wanted to try and foist a technically inferior protocol on it's users, and thus take the flack for what is a carrier level service.

Apple are trying to do too many cloud services, and they are no damned good at them so that's making it worse. They needs to shut some down, and focus back on it's core business.

  • Pull iMessage out of the messaging app, make it cross platform, and stop turning it on by default. SMS is a better protocol, and if people have a problem with the US specific pricing issue then let competition fix it and encourage that.
  • Get the hell out of Maps - make the mapkit API open to different providers, let the OS set it's own map selection, and slowly wind the entire maps effort down, sacking everyone involved as it deserves if they didn't email Cook pre-release and warn him it was a disaster.
  • Make Facetime the decentralised open protocol you promised it would be.

This costs Apple no money whatsoever. Indeed, it saves money. It makes the devices better and more reliable. It is a no-brainer at this point.
 
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So basically people are suggesting Apple should just stick to hardware. Next thing you know someone will be suggesting Apple dump iOS and throw Android or Windows phone 8 on the iPhone. :eek:
 
Rogifan said:
So basically people are suggesting Apple should just stick to hardware. Next thing you know someone will be suggesting Apple dump iOS and throw Android or Windows phone 8 on the iPhone. :eek:
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I'm not suggesting Apple sticks to hardware.

I'm suggesting that Apple gets out of areas that do nothing to lock-in customers, don't generate any revenue, and don't work properly (and are unlikely to get any better as Apple has a long term proven record of incompetence in those areas).

Apple shut down Ping because it was a bad idea taking away resource from other places. iMessage and Maps are in exactly the same position.
 
iTunes Match down?

AppleInsider is reporting that iTunes Match is down this AM. Can anyone confirm that? (I don't have iTunes Match, so I can't myself.)

None too encouraged that these outages seem to be increasing in frequency rather than decreasing. The comments about Apple kind of sucking at online services are quite valid, IMHO. While I like the convenience of iCloud, my critical docs are all on Dropbox (with multiple offline backups, of course).
 
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