Among the various iOS 5 features Apple chief Steve Jobs unveiled today at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was iMessage, a messaging choice for iOS devices reminiscent of RIM's BlackBerry Messenger.
Apple said iMessage "brings the functionality of iPhone messaging to every of your iOS devices―iPhone, iPad and iPod touch." It is built into the Messages app, and allows users to beam messages, photos, videos, or contact information to another iOS 5 users via Wi-Fi or 3G.
Like BBM, however, iMessage module include delivery and feature receipts, and typewriting indication, so you know if the mortal has received your communication and if they are typewriting back. Apple's iMessage module also have bonded end-to-end encryption. iMessage
RIM did not respond to a request for interpret most iMessage. The bourgeois has been battling against iOS and Android in past years for smartphone dominance. Last week, comScore institute that the continuing popularity of the iPhone and Android-based devices helped Apple and Google reassert their advance over RIM in the first three months of the year, with iPhones snapping up 26 proportionality of the U.S. market.
In March, there were reports that RIM was planning on porting BBM to both the Android OS and still the Apple iOS platform, but it has not still prefabricated some announcements. At last year's DevCon, RIM announced the start of the BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform, a effectuation of connecting the company's BBM traveller covering to another apps.
Apple module promulgation iOS 5 in the fall. Also today, the company utilised WWDC to announce its iCloud assist and that Lion OS X module be available in July.
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