Download the free Messages Beta - iMessage Beta • Hacker News Board

You used to be able to not have windows grouped together (i.e. you could drag/drop different conversations out into their own window). You can no longer do that. You can move them to their own window, but if the buddy responds again it goes to both the 'main' window and the new window. Kind of weird.

I haven't really liked tabbed chatting, but I guess this may be time to deal with it.

Re: Download the free Messages Beta - iMessage Beta

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Post by tiernano » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 4:09 PM UTC

i am now just wondering how long it will take to reverse engineer the protocol so we can get this working on more than just a Mac (Windows would be handy, but think about getting this to talk to your Web Service!)

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Post by emeidi » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 4:14 PM UTC

Does it work on Mac OS X Leopard on PowerPC?

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Post by jwilson11 » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 4:16 PM UTC

emeidi wrote: post #5

Does it work on Mac OS X Leopard on PowerPC?

Looks like it requires 10.7.3

EDIT: probably shouldn't have fed a troll EDIT2: No troll here

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Post by tdfx » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 4:24 PM UTC

I wish the addressing mechanism of iMessage was more clear. If I send someone an iMessage from my Mac, does it show up as from my email address of my Apple account? Is the phone number of my iPhone automatically registered as an iMessage-eligible recipient when I set up my Apple account on my iPhone (currently doesn't appear to be).

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Post by emeidi » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 4:28 PM UTC

jwilson11 wrote: post #6

emeidi wrote: post #5

Does it work on Mac OS X Leopard on PowerPC?

Looks like it requires 10.7.3 EDIT: probably shouldn't have fed a troll EDIT2: No troll here

lol It might sound like a troll question, but honestly, my primary Mac still is a PowerMac G5 2x1.8GHz bought in 2004 ...

But no worries, I'm going to replace it the coming Summer with an iMac 27"

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Post by waxy » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 4:30 PM UTC

Is it just me or recently Apple is mr me too? I mean, this is a lot like WhatsApp, except it's cross platform, which i see a big no go for me really. The new OS from Apple also has a ton of apps that were created using the successful models they found in appstore, if they like them so much why don't they buy them.

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Post by jwilson11 » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 4:33 PM UTC

emeidi wrote: post #8

jwilson11 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like it requires 10.7.3 EDIT: probably shouldn't have fed a troll EDIT2: No troll here

lol It might sound like a troll question, but honestly, my primary Mac still is a PowerMac G5 2x1.8GHz bought in 2004 ... But no worries, I'm going to replace it the coming Summer with an iMac 27"

My mistake!

It definitely requires 10.7.3

Sorry about that.