iMessage is an exclusive messaging client for Apple users. It’s free, fast, secure, and works across all Apple products. However, it’s not cross platform like WhatsApp, or other messaging clients, and it will probably never be.
Luckily, for those who want to text their iPhone buddies from their Android device, there’s a new app that can make that happen. It’s called AirMessage!
It’s not that easy though, and requires the Android user to have access to a Mac computer. AirMessage uses the Mac as a server, which means all your data is secure, to route the message to your Android phone.
Check out: How to switch SMS/MMS from iMessage to Android
The app is similar to iMessage and has all the features as well. You can send photos, attachments, use the message effects, see the bubble, see when someone is typing, and more. According to the developer, who is currently seeking beta testers, the app works perfectly fine. There are going to be bugs though, so remember that before testing it out.
If you want to test out AirMessage, and own an Apple computer running macOS 10.11, an Android phone running Android Marshmallow or later, and a Google Plus community account, then you can head to the source link to apply.
The developer plans on releasing the app on the Play Store for free once all the beta testing is done, and it’s good for public use. We will let you know when it’s available!
Source: Reddit
Apple needs to makes it apps cross-platform and not limit exclusive to iOS and MacOS. Google doesn’t limit its apps to Android and Microsoft doesn’t limits its app to one platform, so their is for no need for Apple to limits its apps to its platform
It is just part of their marketing strategy, based on exclusiveness. They think, as they do with their smartphones, that every product of theirs must be sold as “luxury”.
I disagree. Apple should go the other way and start opening out their defaults so that other apps can be selected as the default messenger, browser, keyboard, etc. This would force serious competition on all parties (themselves included) to get better apps out to users. If Allo could be the default messaging app on iOS, I think we would see a much more serious push from Google to get Allo out as an SMS/RCS client in addition to its direct messaging features. Since it can’t take that position on iOS, they don’t seem to care to give that option to Android users either (not that I particularly care about this, since I’ve switched to Signal instead).
Signal is another great example. If it could be the default SMS app, it would really add to the available security for sending messages and boost the encryption across all users.
Really Interesting