What I'm not digging about the entire iMessage I turned off my iMessage option and someone else here in the office was trying to send me a txt.
From the looks of it the iPhone does not let you pick between wanting to send an iMessage or txt I could be wrong, but his phone was forcing iMessage and of course I was not getting the messages. Little bit of an issue not getting those messages.
Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team Member 101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080 Phone: +1 415 376 3314 Fax: +1 650 246 8901 / carlos *at* race.com / http://www.race.com On 10/14/11 11:48 AM, "Martin Millnert" <millnert@gmail.com> wrote:
Jared,
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
Rebuilding this trust can take some time. I do expect that with the iMessage stuff that was released yesterday (SMS/MMSoIP to email/phone#) many more companies will shift to using that instead as the value of BBM is decreased.
With iMessage, Apple is following the lead of multi-platform apps such as Viber (integrated voice over ip) and whatsapp (integrated "rich" texting over ip). Integrated meaning the unique name/key registered in the system's name lookup service is your phone number, so you automagically discover who of all your address book entries have the application. Turning on whatsapp on my 360 contact address book yielded me 10% of my contact list *online* using it. :)
Not being multi-vendor/platform, I wonder if iMessage on iPhone is going to reach similar uptake. Being installed from start certainly helps though, but not piggy backing on the phone numbers is a clear strategic error in my opinion (apple IDs are obviously a long long way from being as universal as phone numbers).
I tried out whatsapp yesterday on an old Symbian S60 Nokia (N97) and it works great. Only thing I regret is not trying it out sooner.
Now, if mobile devices only had ... globally unique and *reachable* IP addresses, you could even envision sending messages/pictures/video directly from your own device to a peer, with no need for bouncing through overloaded centralized bottlenecks, such as is the case with whatsapp (and certainly iMessage as well).
There's certainly a business case in there for a legacy-free, bandwidth-optimized, IP only, LTE-network... (read: no [stupid] tunnels)
I also wonder what the impact of iMessage and others will be on places like hotel networks as the devices camp out longer/more often on the wifi, etc. We observed the impact to a hotel of the NANOG crowd this week (i wonder if there will be lessons learned on the part of lodgenet, etc?)
I know personally I've observed the attwifi ssid expanding to more places (including hilton branded properties) in the past 6 months to offload cellular data.
Offloading is wise, indeed.
Cheers, Martin