iMessage looks like a fantastic and free way for owners of iOS devices to keep in touch with each other, but what if you don’t have an iPhone, an iPod Touch or an iPad?
Never fear… the latest code snips peeking out of the corners of the current version of iChat for OS X Lion pretty strongly suggests that iMessage for OS X will be integrated into Lion’s existing IM client.
Properties found in iChat’s code refer to “read” and “delivery” receipts, which are iMessage features that tell a user if a message has been read or delivered to another device.
Previous to Lion, these code strings weren’t anywhere to be found.
Sounds plausible to us. After all, it didn’t take long for Apple to roll Facetime out to Mac users, and I’m guessing the same is true with iMessage. The more people using Apple’s new messaging service, the better.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
10 responses to “iMessage Is Coming To OS X Lion Thanks To iChat [Rumor]”
I would be very happy to see this feature in the Mac.
I’m definitely on board with this,, i do only have one complaint about iMessage so far,,, and its simple fix i think,,, so i have an iPad,, one email address,,, i have an iphone,, another email address,, and i have a mac,, yet another email address,, this is confusing,,, how bout one email for all your devices and iMessage delivers to all,, and you pick it up on the device you happen to be on,,, in the dev copy of iOS Â i have to have two separate emails,,, don’t like that,,Â
My Mobile Me account goes to all my Mac devices. Hopefully that will continue with iCloud after Mobile Me is gone…
ummmm… why have different email addresses for each device? you should be syncing one email address to all your devices.
It already does what you are asking. Â That’s most of the point.