Enjoying the Messages beta that Apple released yesterday? It’s fantastic, isn’t it? But don’t get too attached to it, because unless you plan to upgrade to Mountain Lion this summer, you’ll lose the application when the beta ends.
Consomac has been digging around within the application’s resources and has found an interesting string that suggests Messages will only be available to users running the OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion operating system when its beta ends.
The message reads:
Thank you for participating in the Messages Beta program. With the inclusion of Messages in OS X Mountain Lion, the Messages Beta program has ended.
To continue using Messages, please visit the Mac App Store and purchase OS X Mountain Lion.
The last sentence indicates users will be forced to upgrade to maintain access to the Messages app.
With many of us already using iMessage on our iOS devices, we’ve been yearning for the same feature on the Mac. This is something, then, that a huge number of users will want to keep. So is this a sneaky way of forcing us to upgrade this summer?
[via MacRumors]
Killian Bell is a freelance writer based in the U.K. He has an interest in all things tech and also covers Android over at CultofAndroid.com. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell.
6 responses to “Messages App Will Be Exclusive To Mountain Lion When Beta Ends”
No problem Im gonna upgrade anyway
What if your one of the people who cant upgrade and you’ve been using the beta?
Then you cant use it anymore…
Then you cant use it anymore…
Messages has removed iChat. So when 10.8 comes out its back to adium.
Downloaded it. I am running Lion w/ 4 GB RAM and it is crashing repeatedly. It is a beta after all. It will not stay up