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Re some of your points in the last paragraph: * I feel like the concept of "being online" is a bit redundant. For iMessages/Hangouts when it works, messages ar
by feifan 13y ago
Re some of your points in the last paragraph:
* I feel like the concept of "being online" is a bit redundant. For iMessages/Hangouts when it works, messages are sent to mobile devices, which may be "available" even when the recipient isn't online and "on" the service at the moment. Also, Google Hangouts chat still supports Jabber, and does support online statuses :)
* iMessages shows delivery receipts, and opt-in read receipts. Not certain about the Hangouts app (on iOS), but it looks like there are three pulsating dots as the message is "sending" and the timestamp appears when the message is "sent".
* A good chat client goes a long way. My needs are probably different than yours, but using Messages on OS X works great for me. Integrates with iMessages, Google Hangouts chat, and FB chat. All I need!
- brandon272 13y agoMy point was that Google Hangouts, iMessage, etc. can do some or all of those things, but only on their own silo'ed platform. I'm a Google Hangouts user so I have no good way of communicating with my iOS friends unless they download extra software onto their phones and we communicate using a third party app. I don't want to use five apps to cover my bases. I wouldn't even mind having to have a Google Hangouts, iMessage, Jabber, etc. account and be able to add ALL of those accounts to a single IM app so that I can communicate with all of those people in a consistent way.
- feifan 13y agoAh, gotcha. Unified app on mobile would be awesome — looks like iMessages is the main obstacle. But some work has been done to try to reverse-engineer the protocol
- Domenic_S 13y ago> opt-in read receipts Has this changed? When iMessage came out, read receipts were opt-out.