Adam Kos The developer conference WWDC21 will start already on Monday, June 7, and although it may not seem like it, it is the most important event of the year for Apple. The hardware presented by her is nice and functional, but where would it be without the appropriate user interface, i.e. the software. And that's exactly what next week will be about. About what the new machines will be able to do, but also about what the old ones will learn. Maybe iMessage will be improved again. I hope so.
Why? Because iMessage is a core service of the company. By the time Apple introduced them, it practically changed the market. Until then, we all texted each other, for which we often paid ridiculous amounts. But sending an iMessage cost (and costs) only a few pennies if we're talking about mobile data. Wi-Fi is free. But this is provided that the other party also has an Apple device and uses data.
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Amaya Toman Last year, iOS 14 brought replies, better group messages, the ability to pin iMessage to the beginning of a long list of conversations, etc. The app actually learned from the communication platforms it was originally based on. Apple has decently fallen asleep here and is now just catching up with what others can already do. For a long time there has been speculation that the Messages application could be able to delete sent messages before the other party reads them, as well as the possibility of scheduling the sending of a message, which the stupid button Nokias were able to do long ago.
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But iMessage has many bugs that should be fixed. The problem is mainly in synchronization across multiple devices, when, for example, Mac duplicates groups, sometimes the display of contacts is missing and there is only a phone number instead, etc. However, the search, which is dumber here than elsewhere in the system, could also be improved. And my wishful thinking at the end: is it really not possible to bring iMessage to Android?
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Pavel Jelic A flood of chat services
Apple swept this idea off the table already in 2013, while introducing the service in 2011. Thanks to it, I have the chat applications FB Messenger, WhatsApp, BabelApp and actually Instagram, and therefore Twitter, on my phone. In all of them, I communicate with someone else, because everyone uses a different application.
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If you were to ask why, then because Android. Whether we Apple fans like it or not, there are simply more Android users. And the worst are those who communicate with you in multiple services. Then those who own an iPhone and communicate in Messenger or WhatsApp rather than the Messages application are incomprehensible (but it is true that they are rather defectors from Android).
So whatever Apple unveils at WWDC21, it won't be iMessage for Android, even though it would benefit everyone but the company itself. So we have to hope that it will at least bring what was said here and we won't have to wait until 2022.
"Then those who own an iPhone and communicate in Messenger or WhatsApp rather than the Messages application are incomprehensible (but it is true that they are more defectors from Android). "
Considering that both Messenger and Whatsapp have (unlike iMessage) an application for PC, I don't find anything incomprehensible about it. On the contrary, a person who prefers to date on the phone instead of writing from the PC (when he has that option) will definitely not be mentally healthy.