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Walkthrough of Apple's iMessages in iOS 5
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Indeed. I pay $90/month for my wife and I to have two data plans and unlimited "family" messaging ($30 for two lines...ripoff). Add in voice and we are paying a crapload per month.
I can not see that happening unless it is via aim. I think both Google and Apple have/had strong links to AOL.
It handles pictures, video, and voice recordings deftly. What, other than .gifs, should it be able to do?
little off there. It is a 160 bytes. (1280 bits) but lets give it 20% overhead and 1600 bits which = 200 bytes. So all said and done max a text message size could be is 250 bypes or 1/4 of a kb. This is giving them an extra 50 bytes for any other communications that needs to go on before and after message.
is iMessages international as well like WhatsApp? if so then i can delete it I use it for a friend in germany who has an iPhone
So will you be able to block people from getting a receipt that you read their message? I don't like the idea of everyone knowing the second I read their message, as a delayed response can be interpreted in different ways.
it is not me using the app that worries me. It would be people like my family members who use iPhone so they try to send me an SMS. Apple picks up oh look iOS device (my iPod) and instead of my Android cell phone getting a SMS it goes to my iPod that I do not use for messaging.
That is the problem I am worried about.
It is people switching to tell the iPhone to default to iMessaging if possible and that will cause a lot of problems. The person recieve imessages I feel should be able to reject the link up if they choose. Make it like BBM were you have to accept the invite at first to allow BBM.
Then they can turn it off, or perhaps there will be some sort of contact selections.
And then there's the whole read receipt thing. It would say if it has been delivered and/or read.
I do agree with you somewhat. And I did agree with you when you said it, until the other guy pointed out the great branding it provides.
It has been watered down a lot.
I will say, iMessage is a well utilized example of an iName. Reason being--if you begin a new text message, the top of the screen reads "message". If the person is iMessage capable, it changes to iMessage. This communicates to you whether or not it is a free message or not. So as annoying as it is to see so many iNames out there, this one at least has a practical application.
easier said that done. For a company that prides itself on making things idiot proof this is a pretty big fail. That is a lot more work and can cause a fair number of problems and easy to screw up. I think this was a bad design and unless they have an iPhone it should not allow defaulting at all to iMessaging. iPod, and iPads will cause a huge amount of problems.
Your iPod wouldn't have a phone number associated with it. It's like FaceTime for the iPod in that your register an email address and your device can be contacted by using that email. Same concept but for messages.
I kind of have a similar feeling. For me, though, anyone I know who would interpret it in a negative way...they already assume I got the message and think I'm ignoring them. So it won't increase the frequency of people taking it the wrong way, but when I don't get the message, it will put them at bay.
Either way, I think the total of times those kind of people get upset about you not replying immediately will only go down.
Just like FaceTime. These people are panicking over nothing.
As a matter of fact, these people don't even realize that you don't have to configure your iDevice to do anything. If you don't want to configure your address book, calendar, e-mail, FaceTime, iTunes Store, App Store, whatever, they don't need to. They don't have to take pictures or shoot video. They don't realize that they have the choice to turn off 3G data, WiFi, or even to turn off the phone and use it as a nice paperweight.
Apple isn't "forcing" people to use anything.
You don't even have to plug an iDevice in and configure it. You are perfectly free to leave it in the box forever (or sell it on Craigslist, eBay, whatever).
The amount of hysteria of these new features is completely ludicrous and utterly nonsensical.
Since you won't be using your iPod for messaging, you can turn it off and it will rout all messages to your phone.
Like it or not, it is not going to be a fail. Looks how successful BBM is.
Just because you have issues with it, doesn't mean the rest of the world will.
Never underestimate idiots. They are very adept at finding problems when none exist.
and yet in people contacts list my number and email address is in there so in the phone they have them link together.
I even believe my Apple ID has my cell linked to it already in terms of phone numbers.
I am not saying iMessaging and BBM is bad. It is how everything links up. BBM I have to accept someone wanting me to put them on their BBM list. iMessaging I do not see that and it wants to default to iMessaging if it can.
That is the fail is how iMessaging takes off.
In Apple trying to push it they are going to cause huge problems for iPod and iPad owners that filter back over to iPhones but the iPod/iPad owners who use some other phone will be the problems.
So you can only send messages to other people if you have there number in your contact list?
You won't get a pin like they do on BBM or be able to use it through email like Facetime?
You won't get a pin like they do on BBM or be able to use it through email like Facetime?
I was going to suggest this, but I don't have any first-hand experience with iMessages.
Does anyone know what "iMessage eligible" means? Does it just mean that a person has an iDevice? Or does it actually search through the networks and confirm that an iDevice has an open and active connection?
The whole point of the read receipt alleviates these kinds of mix ups. The sender can see whether or not the recipient got the message, and then decide to use another method of contact.
You can do all of this now on Whats App along with quite a few other texting apps on the App Store. What's App only cost $0.99. It also has some other nice features like sending your location so you don't have to explain to somebody where you are. It also has clients for android and BB. No need to pay for SMS. No, I'm not the developer or friends with the developer.
iMessage seems like a non-event.... And I'm wondering how iMessage works if you share your apple id with everybody in your family.
iMessage seems like a non-event.... And I'm wondering how iMessage works if you share your apple id with everybody in your family.
I never said you did. But you did say it was going to be "a pretty big fail".
That will not be the case.