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.