Personally I find WhatsApp having a better UX than iMessage. now the worry is about data being siphoned by Zucker zucker. I can hardly search for an old text on iMessage on mac or iPhone. have stopped using it entirely.
Microsoft says it would love to work with Apple to bring iMessage support to Win
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Re: Microsoft says it would love to work with Apple to bring iMessage support to Win
#12However much I'd like this to happen, it'll never ever happen.
Re: Microsoft says it would love to work with Apple to bring iMessage support to Win
#13Never happen.
Didn't stop them from bringing itunes or icloud. I've just found it weird apple hasn't had a web version at least.
iTunes and iCloud were required for iPhones to work with Windows.
Otherwise you couldn't sync music or contacts etc. Having a Windows iMessages app isn't required for anything.
Re: Microsoft says it would love to work with Apple to bring iMessage support to Win
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#15It will never happen, iMessage is one of the network effects of Apple/iPhone ecosystem.
so dumb though. though could own messaging, which would be way more valuable than whatever tiny bump it's giving to the iphone.
Re: Microsoft says it would love to work with Apple to bring iMessage support to Win
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
This would still encourage people to buy iPhones though, it's just a bridge between Your Phone (the app on Windows in question) and your iPhone so you can reply to (i)Messages on windows as you do a Mac. Don't really see why they would be vehemently against this.
Apple makes a lot more money from Macs than iPhones. And along with Continuity is a key pillar of the "Apple products work better together" marketing message.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-re...
Apple makes way more money from iPhones than Macs.
Re: Microsoft says it would love to work with Apple to bring iMessage support to Win
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
This would still encourage people to buy iPhones though, it's just a bridge between Your Phone (the app on Windows in question) and your iPhone so you can reply to (i)Messages on windows as you do a Mac. Don't really see why they would be vehemently against this.
Apple makes a lot more money from Macs than iPhones. And along with Continuity is a key pillar of the "Apple products work better together" marketing message.
Not by a long shot they don't. In Q1 2018, Apple made nine times more money from iPhones than it did from Macs [1].
[1]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Q1_FY18_Data_Summary.pdf
Re: Microsoft says it would love to work with Apple to bring iMessage support to Win
#18It will never happen, iMessage is one of the network effects of Apple/iPhone ecosystem.
so dumb though. though could own messaging, which would be way more valuable than whatever tiny bump it's giving to the iphone.
Apple doesn't commercialise most of their services and none of them through ads. iMessage is another subsidized feature of an Apple device.
Re: Microsoft says it would love to work with Apple to bring iMessage support to Win
#19Do yourself a favor and skip the comment section or you'll see where the "technologically illiterate yet happy to pontificate apple fanboy" stereotype comes.
except this is more about politics than technology