Apple was the first company to integrate a voice-controlled virtual assistant into a smartphone’s operating system, although its main competitors such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft have since come ...

A new messaging app on the Android Play Store has been stirring conversations this month, and its name should be enough to tell you why: it’s called iMessage Chat. Promising to allow Android users to ...

Whatever you do, no matter how cool it sounds, do not use iMessage Chat for Android. The app, which allows Android users to send messages through Apple’s iMessage system and has already been ...

If there's one thing to be learned from Apple's mobile services, it's that they'll almost certainly never be supported on rival platforms. However, that doesn't stop third-party developers from ...

I told you recently that I'm a longtime iPhone user who is not interested in RCS-iMessage interoperability. I've never had a blue vs. green bubble problem when keeping in touch with my contacts who ...

Analyst Ben Bajarin recently talked to a teenage boy at his daughters’ school who had defected from an Android phone to iPhone because of “iMessage lock-in.” The boy said he was tired of being shut ...

Apple’s iMessage and Meta’s WhatsApp are no longer just chat apps, they are the default social fabric for huge parts of the ...

Apple just unveiled Business Chat, its bid to turn iMessage into a communication platform that can compete with Facebook Messenger – and perhaps, make iMessage one of the main ways you interact with ...

There’s nothing worse than being put into a group chat message on your phone (especially without your permission), and then hearing your phone blow up with endless pings. The only solution in that ...

Ten years ago, Steve Jobs announced the App Store. While its first titles were mostly games and novelties, soon major businesses began to recognize the power of mobile apps, shifting major investment ...

Google's communication services are a mess, and that's describing it nicely. It has made multiple attempts, some of which continue to exist independently, to offer the best messaging platform ever.

With the release of iOS 10, Apple introduced a new way for developers to add integrated new features for iMessage users. Here's how to use Fandango's app to explore movie listings, share showtime ...