Comments on: IM Wars: AIM for iPhone grows up, gets paid version

By: AIM evoluciona en la App Store | Cep Telefoncunuz

AIM evoluciona en la App Store | Cep Telefoncunuz — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:55:51 +0000

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By: iPhone OS 3.0 debut is March 17: Vote for most needed features | mblapps

iPhone OS 3.0 debut is March 17: Vote for most needed features | mblapps — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:27:58 +0000

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Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:21:51 +0000

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By: Ernie Oporto

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:10:45 +0000

My ancient Blackberry can do all this in the background at the same time and still have cycles left for everything I need to do with it. Why can’t my iPhone do it? What’s wrong with Apple’s iPhone architecture?

By: Simon Rivard

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:15:24 +0000

Great post

By: Armen M

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:17:26 +0000

Mike, it’s this fact and other stubborn, almost arbitrary, holdout features such as system-wide copy/paste, that is forcing me to root for entrants such as the Palm Pre (WebOS) to energize the market.

By: Francis Beaulieu

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:04:28 +0000

good post

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By: TreasureIslandVegas

TreasureIslandVegas — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:47:35 +0000

good post

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:12:34 +0000

The iPhone is a completely different platform. Apple doesn’t allow you to ‘bloat it up’

In regards to the article, how much does AOL hope to make off the paid version? Shouldn’t they be focusing on preventing AIM from dying by perhaps adding value to the service?

By: Mona Nomura

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:14:40 +0000

What a completely useless app.

We’re basically paying to find out which AIM buddy is near me? Or actually out and about? Who cares! SMS notifications? What is this? 2004? Seriously, these people need to get a grip. AIM — or any chat client for that matter, w/out push is not worth the $$. What an absolutely hilarious notion to think this will actually… well.. sell LOL

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AIM evoluciona en la App Store en blog de jesus — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:30:47 +0000

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By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:31:35 +0000

You are not in touch with reality if you think no one uses AIM anymore. ENOUGH with the video comments.

By: Goodmars

Goodmars — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:22:33 +0000

Please AOL, you guys are an ad-centric juggernaut wanna be. Fring ftw
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By: Mike Cerm

Mike Cerm — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:07:04 +0000

A good design? They didn’t design anything! They announced a feature that they were incapable of delivering. Such a system would have been needlessly complicated, and would have been obsoleted by a device that could multitask anyway.

That’s why Apple gave up. Apple is a software/hardware company, not a web-services company. They couldn’t even get MobileMe to work! They would have needed a persistent connection to every iPhone, and it would have been hell to manage and route it all.

Don’t blame the carrier, either. If Apple were letting AT&T call the shots, wouldn’t they have cleared the push system with them before announcing it? AT&T doesn’t restrict was users can do on Windows Mobile phones. Do you think that Apple is a lesser partner with AT&T?

By: mikee

mikee — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:46:00 +0000

uh…videos aren’t a good idea to put on the site. haha AIM is nothing without push. nuff said

By: Erick

Erick — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:35:49 +0000

Seesmic is the worst addition to this site…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:34:10 +0000

I disagree – It was a good design but the is politics. Just think of the revenue lost by carriers over push technologies. SMS? Why bother – use IM. Its the same reason I’m certain that major VoIP apps are still missing – the carriers are scared sh!tless on those items.

By: Mike Cerm

Mike Cerm — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:17:04 +0000

Never. Seriously.

I don’t know if they were lying when they announced it, or just aren’t smart enough to come up with a good system, but the whole idea was silly to begin with.

The push system was intended as a work-around for the limited memory in the iPhone (which also causes Safari to crash all the time).

It’s far more likely that the next gen iPhone will have enough main memory, and introduce real multitasking. That will eliminate the need for a vaporware notification system.

By: Smartalyx

Smartalyx — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:12:08 +0000

AIM iPhone app Nooo… {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/kGR8iNXbGP_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”AIM iPhone app Nooo… ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/dK9g1lgmbm”}}}

By: Andrew Hillman

Andrew Hillman — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:11:46 +0000

I used the upgraded app last night and because of the position of the ads I kept hitting them. I wouldn’t be happy if I was the advertiser because all those clicks were without return. AOL needs to move those ads.

By: Armen M

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:42:14 +0000

When are we going to see Apple start using that ’special sauce’ we have all been waiting for. You know, the background push that has been promised for what feels like over a year? Oh wait, it HAS been over a year.