IMessage is an Apple product so you can’t use iMessage on your Android device but according to iTechCliq you can send and receive iMessage from Windows PC. Now you can use the Edge browser to catch these events, and adding iMessage for Android would show that the company is at the very least, attempting to come out of its walled garden. In the past, Apple Events were locked to Apple products and the Safari Browser. But it’s unclear what Apple’s goal is with such a move, it could be to compete with Whatsapp and Hangouts giving messaging without a cellular connection.Īpple has recently been opening up a bit more than usual with Apple Music on Android and opening up Apple events to Microsoft Edge browser users. We speculate that nothing would change on the iOS side as the native messaging app works fine with regular texting and iMessage, so Android having to utilize another messaging app to use iMessage might not be appealing to them. Whether or not iOS users will also get a new app remains to be seen.
We’re not entirely sure how this would work across platform other than Android would have its own iMessage app. IMessage is often one of the iOS features that defectors of the platform wish they had on Android so if this rumor proves true, then many users will be pleased. It also may solve a long-standing problem of former iOS users not receiving or being able to send texts to their former iMessage colleagues - a problem that takes a few steps to fix but is fixable. First, he said, Apple considers its own user base of 1 billion active devices to provide a large enough data set for any possible AI learning the company is. The beta already gave us a pretty good idea of how Google Messages translates emoji reactions sent by iOS users, properly formatting them on Android instead of appearing as a confusing text. Hiroshi Lockheimer oversees all of Google’s operating. Apple has already expanded its Apple Music offering to Android, and iMessage on Android may be the next step into tapping into the millions of Android users Apple will likely never sway to iOS. Interesting note from this week's Walt Mossberg column on The Verge: When I asked a senior Apple executive why iMessage wasn’t being expanded to other platforms, he gave two answers. Google exec gives harshest rebuke yet of iMessage lock-in effect in push for RCS on iOS. That’s right people, you didn’t read that incorrectly, iMessage on Android. Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference is just around the corner and we’re hearing whisperings that iMessage for Android may be announced.