OS X Lion and iMessage

Why didn’t iMessage support appear in 10.7.2?

The introduction of support in OS X would be a great step to promote iMessage. After all, everything for this is:
- iCloud has a shared address book
- there is a great IM client iChat - add iMessage protocol to it and that's it.

Enthusiasts unearthed pieces of code in iChat:
interface IMMessage: NSObject
{
IMHandle * _sender;
IMHandle * _subject;
NSAttributedString * _text;
NSString * _plainBody;
NSDate * _time;
NSDate * _timeDelivered;
NSDate * _timeRead;
')
But officially Apple is silent.

The iMessage application concept for OS X has appeared online. It was invented by the Jan-Michael Cart.


Personally, I do not see the point in a separate application, but how it will be in reality, I think that we will soon find out, because delay with the lack of support for iMessage in OS X is not in the interests of Apple.