iMessage is a clear competitor to Blackberry’s famous BBM service they launched a while back. And while this service is pretty awesome for Blackberry owners, the number of these owners is steadily decreasing, due mostly in part to the increasingly better features found on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 7. At WWDC this last Monday, Scott Forstall and Greg Joswiak showed off Apple’s new competitor to the service: iMessage.
iMessage is more than just a messaging service between iPhones; it’s a way to keep in touch with anybody using a device with iOS 5 built-on. The most interesting part of the service is probably the speed. You’ll know things like when a person begins to reply, all the way to when a person has read your message. It’s the future of texting, that with luck, will be implemented across more platforms. The best part (not the most interesting, but well liked) is the absence of the need of a texting/messaging service: it’s completely unlimited. And with the iCloud service, you can finish a conversation on a completely separate device! When the last feature will come in handy has yet to be found, but considering the rest of the features, we certainly aren’t complaining.
You can expect iOS 5 to come out this autumn, while the beta version is currently available now for developers .
