Magenta makes own messaging service.

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http://www.esbtrib.com/2015/07/23/2...nced-messaging-to-make-texting-more-powerful/

This article compares it to What's app and Imessage.......
I wonder if it will turn out to be a hit or just another failure. I guess time will tell when they roll it out to more devices.

 

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http://phandroid.com/2015/07/22/t-m...for-super-charged-text-and-picture-messaging/

 

[mikedt]

So it's trying to be like Whatsapp or Wechat, but it's only for T-mobile subscribers, US only and certain Samsung devices only....OK.

I'm not likely to be using it then.

 

[SavageRobot]

It could be good if other carriers / regions / brands etc do jump on the wagon too. Sounds like they are saying most semi-decent phones have the potential already built in, just nobody has bothered enabling it, guess because it will cut into the carriers bottom line a little. Although saying that, I think most people these days are on contract anyway, usually with unlimited texts anyway. But it would be nice to have a service like WhatsApp standard, not having to use another third party app. I wouldn't admit it to my friends when iMessage started, but I was a little jealous ha.

 

[MLSS]

It could be good if other carriers / regions / brands etc do jump on the wagon too. Sounds like they are saying most semi-decent phones have the potential already built in, just nobody has bothered enabling it, guess because it will cut into the carriers bottom line a little. Although saying that, I think most people these days are on contract anyway, usually with unlimited texts anyway. But it would be nice to have a service like WhatsApp standard, not having to use another third party app. I wouldn't admit it to my friends when iMessage started, but I was a little jealous ha.

Imessage is one of the things that Apple got right and Android hasn't been able to duplicate for several reasons (hangouts = huge failure). If the carriers start to work on this individually, at some point we will see something that works amazing across carriers that is standard. Apple knows Imessage is a gem and will never let go of it.

 

[Hadron]

Oh, indeed. When they launched iMessage Jobs talked about making it cross-platform, but then I assume they realised its potential for locking customers in. That's certainly the best explanation for why they took years and a credible threat of class action before they took any action to fix the iMessage deregistration bug...