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The MacRumors Show: Should Apple Allow iMessage for Android?

No they should not. Android users will be okay without blue bubbles.

You want them so bad, change your color 😛 isn't that what your OS is known for lol.
 
I don't want iMessage for Android. I want Apple to support RCS. Thankfully they plan to do so next year and when they do I think a lot of the interest in Beeper will go away. In the meantime, I'm all for Beeper being a PITA for Apple, as that will hopefully expedite Apple's work to support RCS. I don't have sympathy for Apple on this as they have been too slow in getting behind RCS in the first place, and so have brought a lot of it on themselves.
 
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Yes they should along with allowing a desktop windows application as well.

Remember a lot of people have to use windows devices for work and being able to just use iMessage would be great. I use a Mac for work and have for 10 years but my wife has to use a windows machine. I can and do message from my work machine but my wife can not and wishes she could.

Same as we sometimes have to jump to android things for work or older devices.
 
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AdamInKent said:
It looks like you’ve missed the point. If I buy a BMW and a friend of mine buys a Skoda then we can both drive on the same roads.
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Not at all... the network is the road, and regardless of your phone of choice, you can make calls, send messages, etc.. Your phone of choice, however, will traverse that 'road' with the features and specifications it has been built with. Going to the Skoda dealership and telling them that it doesn't drive like a BMW would be good cause for laughter. The same applies to iOS vs Android.
 
AdamInKent said:
I’d say that the point of a communication tool is to communicate. A communication tool that can’t communicate with everyone is not very useful. In the same way that the phone app wouldn’t be much good if it could only call other iPhones: the iMessages app is crippled by not being able to send IMs to Android phones. Even if I want to send a message to someone with an iPhone, 90% of the time I still use WhatsApp, because that’s the app that is the most convenient means of messaging everyone.

iMessage would be much more useful if it could swap instant messages with Android phones.
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As a communication tool, the iPhone does communicate. As a computer, the Mac computes. As a watch, the Apple Watch tells the time. If you need any of these items to do something not listed on the box, then you don't buy them. It's really not that hard to understand.
 
Boeingfan said:
As a communication tool, the iPhone does communicate. As a computer, the Mac computes. As a watch, the Apple Watch tells the time. If you need any of these items to do something not listed on the box, then you don't buy them. It's really not that hard to understand.
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You are right, the iPhone does communicate, and it does it well: when running WhatsApp 😉
 
Boeingfan said:
Hahaha then there is no need for any change as a suitable solution has been found.
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And from a user perspective you are right: I don’t need iMessage because WhatsApp is more useful. (But that doesn’t negate the fact that iMessage should be better.)
 
AdamInKent said:
And from a user perspective you are right: I don’t need iMessage because WhatsApp is more useful. (But that doesn’t negate the fact that iMessage should be better.)
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Well, should be better applies to life; the US presidency, world famine, crime, politics, minimum wage….
 
Can anyone confirm if there link given to an Android phones expires or times out? Can I reuse the danger link someone sent again?
 
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