Actually curious on this point - is there an app for jailbroken iPhones to see what data is being sent out from your phone? A simple way? Packet sniffer with your phone's IP?
Never used BBM, but have been pretty happy with both Beluga and GroupMe...though I'd say GroupMe is the one to go with, as Beluga got bought by Facebook.
From reading the article, it seems that it isn't, yet. The posited theory is that Android will eventually include the app in its default install, so at that point it might be worth installing if most of your friends are Android users. Until then, skip it.
I've had good experiences with WhatsApp. Plus, it has become popular enough over here that most of the regular BBM users I know have WhatsApp installed as well.
This assumes a lot about a pretty mundane app. It seems more like Google is letting Slide do its own thing within the company. It was only acquired half a year ago, I'd be shocked if this is a precursor to a feature baked into Android.
Would you, really? I think that Google has to do something to get into the ring on this one. Facebook bought Beluga. Google's just gonna stand by and do nothing?
You're talking about a category of application which very few people are even using at the moment. Both Facebook and Google buy a lot of companies.
They're not "doing nothing", they're letting a small team try to develop something, which seems a perfectly appropriate reaction. How often has Google jumped into a totally new category with any real conviction? They half-heartedly launched Buzz long after Twitter was a hit, they killed Wave, etc.
Yes, exactly. I was mentally enumerating all the meanings of the Trojan Horse allegory and wondering why this has anything to do with iOS in particular. Yet, I cat't see what the point of the OP is. It reads like the script of a horror movie missing the last ten pages.
Google pricked the group messaging territory with a little incomplete flag. Anything else I'm missing?
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Is there any iOS app out there that come close to BBM? It seems that all the one I tried were very buggy.
They're not "doing nothing", they're letting a small team try to develop something, which seems a perfectly appropriate reaction. How often has Google jumped into a totally new category with any real conviction? They half-heartedly launched Buzz long after Twitter was a hit, they killed Wave, etc.
Google pricked the group messaging territory with a little incomplete flag. Anything else I'm missing?
Interesting idea, but with msn, gtalk, facebook and the hopefully-still-upcoming BBM, multi-network clients should rule.