Go Beyond Basic Messaging. Chat or in groups and conduct voice and video calls with your trusted contacts. Take Control of Communications. Edit, retract or set an expiry time on a single message or picture. Trust Message Sources. Have peace of mind knowing the person sending you a message is who they say they are.
Share More. Send files and voice notes or share your static or dynamic location. Android users, please put down your pitchforks. The truth is, Apple's iMessage platform is really well done and seamless to use And that's the rub.
In order to get the most out of iMessage, not only do you need an Apple device, but the people you talk to need to use Apple devices iOS or Mac. If you trust Apple more than a third-party app developer, then iMessage is your answer. It provides end-to-end encryption, and with iMessage apps and FaceTime built in, you're still able to do all of the fun things competing messaging apps can do.
Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Getty Images. Jason Cipriani. BBM managed to take traditional desktop messaging and translate it to the tiny computers in our pockets.
It was astounding. The text bubbles were cluttered, the user interface felt clunky when navigating between messages, and if the wheel on your BlackBerry got stuck, good luck scrolling through messages. I got my Bold in I was in the 10th grade and, like everyone else, my life revolved around my phone.
My friends and I texted every single day and night. We all had BlackBerrys. Some people got new devices from their parents as birthday gifts, others used old recycled phones. Through BBM, those individual text messages soon morphed into elaborate, endless group chats.
We became a perfect batch of new BlackBerry users. RIM already made a name for itself among businesses and governments, but then it started reaching a crucial new audience: young consumers.
By , BBM had 60 million monthly active users. My friends and I were some of the earliest ones. It sounds silly to say today, when WhatsApp has more than a billion users and group chats are part of our daily lives, but back then, it was sensational.
We became close through constant group chats with our pals, and eventually, we split off into direct messaging. It was ridiculous and exhilarating. There was no difference for me at 15 between my physical relationship with this person and our life on BBM. If anything, the latter felt even more intimate and safe.
Early messages on the Crackberry forum are full of people trying to sum up why BBM felt better to use than standard text messages. BBM helped create one of the most anxiety-inducing messaging features that still exists today: read receipts.
Read receipts were introduced alongside BBM in Colleagues knew when someone was available and could hear back instantaneously. But the read receipt function came back to bite me, a person who often reads a message and replies hours later.
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