iMessage for Android

Re:iMessage for Android by consultutah on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @12:32AM (#6435988)

Sadly this will probably be shut down by morning since it didn't come from Apple. What Apple should, but won't do, is buy it and release it for free themselves. But then Apple would have to admit that there just might be another AppStore in the universe and their reality distortion field might show a small dent.

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Re:iMessage for Android by esusatyo on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @12:39AM (#6436015)

Remember this is Play Store not App Store. Apple can not pull anything out of the Play Store.

What they can do is to shut off the backend because they probably don't have rights to use it anyway.

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Re:iMessage for Android by tomflack on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @01:17AM (#6436132)

They don't need to pull anything, just have their lawyers tell Google's lawyers that their iMessage trademark is being infringed. Gone.

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Re:iMessage for Android by 37prime on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @01:22AM (#6436149)

Bruce Sewell’s office can always send a letter to Google Play Store. Most likely Google Play store would comply.

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Re:iMessage for Android by est on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @02:02AM (#6436281)

You can pull it off for Trademark infringement

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Re:iMessage for Android by dan1234 on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @04:34AM (#6436704)

Why would Apple buy them? If they wanted to release iMessage for Android, they would. But it's a selling point for them, so it's not likely to happen.

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