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Actually, both clients have been named “Messages” as long as they’ve supported iMessage. The iOS client has been “Messages” since iPhone OS 3.0; before that it
by comex 9y ago
Actually, both clients have been named “Messages” as long as they’ve supported iMessage.
The iOS client has been “Messages” since iPhone OS 3.0; before that it was called “Text” and had “SMS” written inside the chat bubble in the icon. iMessage wasn’t introduced until iOS 5.0.
The macOS client was originally “iChat”, then “iChat AV”, then “iChat” again; in this era it supported multiple protocols including AIM and Jabber. In OS X 10.8, the client was renamed to “Messages” and gained iMessage support in addition to the older protocols. Support for the older protocols was removed in the just-released macOS 10.13.
- saagarjha 9y agoActually, Jabber support still exists. It's all the other things based on IMServicePlugIn that were removed.
- comex 9y agoOh… you're right. During the betas, sending messages through Google Talk gave me an error [1], and I removed the account. But I guess it's still supposed to work, at least in the release version. [1] With a delightful/odd error message: "The targeted service Potato has been discontinued".