Re: [apple-iphone] Did I miss something? Having TEXT issues with MacBook

 

Greetings Jim Saklad

Thanks for pointing out that my iPhone can distinguish the ability of the intended recipient to receive different message types and choose the appropriate type for that particular recipient. I had never bothered to carefully think it through.

Please do not be astounded that I have never read anything about how iMessages work.

One of the beauties of using modern technology is that you do not have to know how things work to be able to use them. It is kind of like digesting food.

Live long and prosper.

"Bim" Bousman
who is not well informed

On Oct 27, 2016, at 7:03 PM, Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

> What good is iMessage if it can only send messages to Apple phones?

The cost of sending iMessages is practically zero.
Every iPhone is also able to send standard, pay-as-you-go, SMS text messages over the cellular networks.

> I do not want to keep track of what kind of phone everybody has and use different apps to text each one.
> Bim

A version of the iOS Messages application with support for iMessage was included in the iOS 5 update on October 12, 2011.

After 1 year, Tim Cook announced that Apple device users had sent 300 billion messages using iMessage. By February 2016, the number of iMessages sent had grown to 200,000 per second.

I am astounded that you've never read anything about how they work.

The same App works for both.
You compose a message and send it.
If the users are both using iPhones and have set up iMessage, it is sent as an iMessage.
If either of those conditions is not met, it is sent as a standard SMS text message.

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