Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App

Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by r00fus on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:44PM (#7272296)

> Apple iMessage, can't inter-operate between Apple and Android devices (very stupid tactic, it will get marginalized).

Apple's iMessage works fine with Android in the western developed world where you can get unlimited/cheap SMS. Also android support won't help iMessage in markets like India where there are very very many feature (j2me) phones out there.

Apple and WhatsApp have different goals. FB is far more threatened by WhatsApp than Apple.

What's at question here is whether you think the emerging market telecom providers will ever see their doom and lower SMS pricing before WhatsApp, Viber and the like remove all their messaging income.

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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by gst on Thursday February 20, 2014 @01:11PM (#7272514)

> Apple's iMessage works fine with Android in the western developed world where you can get unlimited/cheap SMS.

No, it doesn't. It works in simple cases as long as none of the iMessage participants invites someone else into the conversation and starts a group conversation. Once that happens you can only participate in the conversation if you have an actual iMessage client.

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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by dchuk on Thursday February 20, 2014 @09:07PM (#7275009)

That isn't true. I'm in a 3 year old group chat with 4 iPhone friends and 1 Android friend and it works perfectly fine. The Android friend just gets text messages, the rest of us get iMessages.

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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by koolkao on Thursday February 20, 2014 @10:18PM (#7275251)

As a Google Voice user I can't get messages from iMessage, and the sender doesn't get a delivery failure notice.

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