I’ve been looking forward to the release of iOS5 because I want to see how iMessage affects my cell phone bill. Most everyone I know has an iPhone and I suspect in a month or two my cell phone bill will gradually reduce as a result of this.
With iOS5 out in the wild I started receiving the first messages from friends and colleagues that are now using iMessage. I noticed a pretty big problem with how the system is designed. There is no connection between your phone number that is associated with an iPhone and your email address that is associated with another iOS device such as an iPad.
Now here in lies the problem, I’m at home and I send a message from my iPad to my friends iPhone. We converse for a while, and then I leave the house taking my iPhone with me. Now because I started the conversation on my iPad all responses are going only to that iPad. However my friend is not aware of where my messages are coming from, I’m in his address book and he sees the message as coming from me. For all he knows the messages are coming from my iPhone.
This likely unintentional separation of accounts solves an annoyance of this era of devices. I personally can’t stand when I get a DM on Twitter and it appears as new on 3 devices (Phone, Tablet, & Computer). So here you don’t get that problem, however you have a situation where people think they might be reaching you but actually are not.
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