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Originally Posted by tlgerdes
Not bypassing your carrier, Apple is now your carrier, no bypassing them.  |
And your problem with that is, just what Trevor?
They provide it as a free service, so I don't see what your problem is. Geez, what a beat-up. Blackberry have done it for years (BMS) and now Google are getting into the act too - as are several other messaging service providers. At least iMessage has some smarts to it. I can tell when a message has been delivered in real time - I get a "delivered" indicator which is
incredibly reassuring for business. You don't get that with SMS and you certainly don't get that with with email. If you're on an 802.11 connection then it goes via that path rather than 3G - effectively cutting out the carrier as Humayun correctly pointed out. Apple aren't the "carrier", so stop saying the they are. Like the rest of these services, they are merely the parking station attendants.