I message sucks, it is never is reliable

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Originally Posted by Seankill 

I message sucks, it is never is reliable

Apple should've invested in Twitter before it got too popular.

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Originally Posted by Seankill 

I message sucks, it is never is reliable

I've been using it almost a year. worked great up until this morning.Message BETA on Mountain Lion will not send/receive pictures though.

I always thought iMessage worked fine ... until I was talking to my girlfriend one day and I asked her why she didn't response to one of my messages (not an important one, but that still required an answer).  She had no idea what I was talking about, so I showed her my phone, which showed the message as being "delivered."  Then she showed me her phone, and all the other messages where there, but not the one I asked her about.  She never got it.  Then she mentioned there were a couple times she messaged me, and I never responded ... I NEVER got those messages.  

I'd say, on average, it happens maybe once or twice a month, and we message each other at least three or four times a day (depending on our schedules).  Now if something like that happens, and I don't hear back after a reasonable amount of time I call and leave a voicemail.  

Originally Posted by Seankill 
I message sucks, it is never is reliable

The exact opposite is true in my experience, including now.

iMessage is my least used app for communication. I use Whatsapp and KakaoTalk a lot more since those work across multiple platforms, not just iOS.

I've not had problems sending or receiving, but iMessage RARELY updates conversations on multiple devices as it should.

I have had quite a few issues with iMessage since it came out. Sometimes as another poster mentioned messages never arrive. Or there have even been cases when I got a message and when I went to the threaded view, the last message dissappeared about the time I opened the view. It does some really odd things. I hope they improve it.

As for today, I was having all kinds of issues with it. I cut it off for now and am using text messages only.

In my experience, pretty much all of the data-based messaging apps sometimes fail to deliver messages. Ironically, the decades-old SMS is by far the most reliable (but also the most limited). iMessage's biggest failure is that is explicitly states a message was delivered, when in fact it may not have been. A message should not be marked as delivered unless the system has a confirmation that it was delivered to the recipients devices, not just a "message was sent and we assume it was delivered".

Another example, Facebook used to only timestamp a message once it was confirmed to have been added to the chat stream. But they've since updated the app to make it look like messages are delivered faster. Now they are timestamped when they are sent, and you don't always know if it actually made it to the chat stream. HeyTel also fails to immediately deliver some messages. But at least for these two apps, the messages do eventually show up (or you get an indicator that they weren't delivered). It appears iMessage is completely losing some messages but acting as if they were delivered. Bad. And speaking as someone who has severel long-distance friendships, very frustrating.

Guess I'll stick with FB for now, those messages eventually get delivered. Besides, I know far more people on FB than have an iOS device.