{"id":2332,"date":"2012-03-21T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2012-03-21T12:38:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:38:05","slug":"messenger-apps-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/21\/messenger-apps-revisited","title":{"rendered":"Messenger apps revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over a year ago, I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2011\/03\/08\/messenger-apps-disrupting-text-messaging-sms\">Messenger apps, disrupting text messages (SMS)<\/a>. During that time, Apple launched another service called iMessage (standard with iOS 5 and greater). Send unlimited text messages via WiFi or 3G, and pick up where you left off across devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch).<\/p>\n<p>I was desperately looking for a BBM desktop client. I&#8217;ve since stopped using BBM much due to the fact that most of my friends on the service have ditched the BlackBerry in favour of Android and iOS devices. So now we only keep in touch via WhatsApp. And more recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kakao.com\/talk\/en\">KakaoTalk<\/a>. Makes me wonder which came first &#8212; WhatsApp or KakaoTalk.<\/p>\n<p>But not to digress, Apple has done a one-up. They&#8217;re providing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/mountain-lion\/features.html#messages\">iMessage support<\/a> in Mountain Lion. And this is a killer feature because now you can chat on your iPhone, move to an iPad if you&#8217;re lying on your couch, and go straight to continue messaging on your MacBook Air when you&#8217;re on your desk. You also have group chat with iMessage. This is an extreme productivity booster when you need to keep in touch with groups (i.e. don&#8217;t only chat on the go, but chat at your desk too).<\/p>\n<p>The only limitation of iMessage? All users need to have an iOS device. I&#8217;d hope Apple would open it all up so other people can built against the iMessages API, but thats probably a pipe dream. This limitation is basically similar to the once popular BBM.<\/p>\n<p>With two major platforms, Android (Google Talk) and iOS (iMessage), you&#8217;ll go where your friends are.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Messenger%20apps%20revisited&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2012%2F03%2F21%2Fmessenger-apps-revisited&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Or provide some form of \u201cdesktop\u201d capability. Sync is important. Brent Simmons recently wrote of Marco Arment:\u00a0 You know him from Tumblr, Instapaper, The Magazine, and (coming soon) Overcast. You may think of Marco as an iOS developer \u2013 but every\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2108,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2011\/03\/08\/messenger-apps-disrupting-text-messaging-sms","url_meta":{"origin":2332,"position":1},"title":"Messenger apps, disrupting text messaging (SMS)","date":"8\/3\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are my thoughts on messenger applications, and if you read beyond, there's an idea worth thinking about. Dramatis Personnae: Beluga: Free, Private group messaging on your mobile (with Facebook integration). Works on iOS and Android. Created by ex-Googler's. Recently acquired by Facebook. 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