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June 7, 2011 02:31 am GMT
Now that the WWDC keynote is over and I've had a little bit of time to reflect, I've been thinking about what excited me the most from today's announcements. The list is long, no doubt. But I think I'm going to have to go with something that surprised me " while at the same time making me look smarter than perhaps I really am. (Again, just perhaps.) iMessages.As one of the core new features highlighted today in iOS 5, iMessages has one purpose: to kill SMS. That is, traditional carrier-controlled text messages. iMessages will do this by replacing SMS with a service that Apple is in control of across all of their iOS devices. And here's the real death blow: iMessages will be completely free.
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Apple Has Finally Stuck A Dagger Into SMS. I Love It.
Now that the WWDC keynote is over and I've had a little bit of time to reflect, I've been thinking about what excited me the most from today's announcements. The list is long, no doubt. But I think I'm going to have to go with something that surprised me " while at the same time making me look smarter than perhaps I really am. (Again, just perhaps.) iMessages.As one of the core new features highlighted today in iOS 5, iMessages has one purpose: to kill SMS. That is, traditional carrier-controlled text messages. iMessages will do this by replacing SMS with a service that Apple is in control of across all of their iOS devices. And here's the real death blow: iMessages will be completely free.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/lmNZtFytYRo/
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