Apple finally releases tool to disable iMessage

in apple on 2014-11-10 08:22 (#2TYY)

When an iPhone user send an text to another iPhone user, Apple quietly pipes the message through their own servers instead of over the traditional SMS network. This feature was originally intended to help avoid per-text charges for people on budget cell plans and is normally seamless - the only user-visible difference is that your chat bubbles are blue instead of green. However, if you switch your phone from an iOS device to an Android device, all future messages from iPhone users get lost in the nether - there simply wasn't a method to disable iMessage from your phone number.

Until now. Users stuck in this situation can now use this web tool to escape from iMessage oblivion.

iWhat? (Score: -1, Flamebait)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-10 13:07 (#2TYZ)

This is something about those hippy white phones with a screen like a walled garden right?

bad design (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-11-11 20:53 (#2TZX)

I used to think imessage was a neat program, because it seemed to work so effortlessly. In an age where you paid top dollar for a limited number of SMSes per month, being able to imessage your friends all day, every day, was a huge draw to iphones for the teenage set.

In light of this though, I retract my enthusiasm. Seems they forgot to design for something pretty big and important, and that is by software standards, a pretty public and pretty obvious blunder.