And, like Facebook’s Messenger app, Apple’s Messages now allows you to overlay text atop images.
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Today at Apple WWDC, Craig Federighi announced that Apple has an app called Home that integrates with an enormous range of devices, including cameras and door locks. Imagine shopping for a house and having to worry about whether it’s compatible with Apple or Android.
You can also put music in iMessage, and links will show up looking like they do on Twitter, essentially.
Personally, I’m a huge fan of iMessage. Late last month, research from analytics firm SimilarWeb showed that the Facebook-owned app is now the world leader, being the most popular messaging app in 109 countries. However, by offering high encryption (End-to-End), similar to WhatsApp and Telegram, iMessage could emerge a topper and offer secure and guaranteed private messaging, where the recent FBI-Apple case stands as a witness. You can expect more new features and functionality in the coming months as Apple is opening up the Messages platform to developers. So, if you type “pizza”, for instance, it’ll suggest you use the pizza emoji. The way we see it, the rumours are not true at all.
Of course, there is also the option that those applications appear on the App Store in some weird form that would allow users to get updates quicker for a specific app, without having to wait for an iOS update to bring those applications up to date. Assuming that the Android version of iMessage acts in the same way as iOS’s iMessage does, Chromebook users could use iMessage to seamlessly continue conversations that they had on their phone. In my opinion, it would still be a welcome addition.
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With iMessage Apps, users can simply open up an app drawer from right within the Messages app to interact with others (and apps) at the same time.
