OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) Roars Into Existence...

Marky said:
Definitely nice to have iMessages on my Mac :)

It would also seem that they are making Growl pretty useless with the introduction of its own notification system :p
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Think Growl will still be around. Think the notification system will only be able to be used by MAS apps so there still plenty of use for Growl yet.
 
As above really, have always wanted a proper way to send texts from my computer - thought this would be it but until it can receive messages sent to your phone number via iMessage (presumably this would need to be authenticated somehow), it's a bit rubbish! Not many people iMessage me with my e-mail address, it just doesn't occur to people. The success of the system is the linking to the phone number.
 
Freakitchen said:
As above really, have always wanted a proper way to send texts from my computer - thought this would be it but until it can receive messages sent to your phone number via iMessage (presumably this would need to be authenticated somehow), it's a bit rubbish! Not many people iMessage me with my e-mail address, it just doesn't occur to people. The success of the system is the linking to the phone number.
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Or you giving you friends your email, and telling them to use that from now on?
 
Detroit_Waves said:
Or you giving you friends your email, and telling them to use that from now on?
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It doesn't happen though, does it? If I wanted to send a quick message to someone I'd just find them in the phonebook, and click send - which would obviously default to phone number. They wouldn't think 'oh, he uses iMessage on his computer, I'd better send this text to his e-mail address' (don't get me wrong, it would be nice if that thought was there!)
 
Freakitchen said:
It doesn't happen though, does it? If I wanted to send a quick message to someone I'd just find them in the phonebook, and click send - which would obviously default to phone number. They wouldn't think 'oh, he uses iMessage on his computer, I'd better send this text to his e-mail address' (don't get me wrong, it would be nice if that thought was there!)
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From my experience, if you have their phone and email in the contact, and both have iMessage enabled, you just send a message and all the recipients devices (Phone number on phone, email on everything else) gets the message
 
iMessages is the only major feature I want from this, not sure its worth the full upgrade from Lion for this. Anyone know if they'll allow you to keep running the beta of iMessages?
 
Freakitchen said:
It doesn't happen though, does it? If I wanted to send a quick message to someone I'd just find them in the phonebook, and click send - which would obviously default to phone number. They wouldn't think 'oh, he uses iMessage on his computer, I'd better send this text to his e-mail address' (don't get me wrong, it would be nice if that thought was there!)
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It works fine if they send a message to your phone number. Just put, under the 'Receive at' menu on your phone your email address too. Anyone sending a message to either of them will be received by you.

Deku said:
I'm beginning to see what Windows users mean when they laugh at Mac users having to pay for Service Packs...
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Yes, if Mountain Lion was just fixing bugs and other issues. But it isn't, is it? It's bringing new features.. like a new operating system would..
 
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QwaF said:
It works fine if they send a message to your phone number. Just put, under the 'Receive at' menu on your phone your email address too. Anyone sending a message to either of them will be received by you.
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That's how I've got mine set, but I don't receive any iMessages sent to my phone number on the Mac, since you can only tell the software your e-mail address. I was really hoping to be able to use it for all the iMessages I receive...
 
Alpherah said:
From my experience, if you have their phone and email in the contact, and both have iMessage enabled, you just send a message and all the recipients devices (Phone number on phone, email on everything else) gets the message
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I think you're right, but this would rely on people having organised address books! I bet most of the people who send me messages don't have my e-mail address in their contact for me on their phone, even if they know it! I'm always seeing smartphones with contact lists that still haven't developed beyond 'Dad Home', 'Dad Mobile', 'Dad Mobile 2' etc.
 
Beasty said:
Yeah, sorta, hopefully it doesn't cost too much but I was fine with Lion's pricing.
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Given that £30 for Lion constituted an upgrade to OS X (not just bug fixes, which is what service packs are, essentially) for all Macs that you own, I really don't think that it's comparable to service packs or even to individual Windows releases.

Upgrade 2 Windows machines from Windows Vista to Windows 7 = £200+
Upgrade 2 Mac machines from OS X Snow Leopard to OS X Lion = £30
 
Find myself looking at this and saying 'really?'. Nothing here that couldn't and shouldn't have been included with Lion originally. I'm far from someone who whines over what is a small upgrade cost but since Leopard, I've been expecting Apple to build on something significant for the OS. It now looks like that significant development is going to be Mac OS XI, if at all.
 
I have yet to try the Message feature as I've been away from home for two days.

What presently bugs me is the syncing between two iOS devices and iMessage i.e my iPhone and iPad. The iMessage app was sync'd between the two but not anymore.

I know the iPhone is setup correctly, so it is most likely the pad. Guess I need to investigate deeper. Either way I've never been impressed at how iMessages has worked - too finicky for an Apple product imo.
 
What I would love to know (as with iOS5) is what on earth people want when they say "I expected more".

What is missing from OSX that you would love to see because I see a fair few of these posts whenever a new OSX is released and they never really say what they think is missing.
 
fez said:
What I would love to know (as with iOS5) is what on earth people want when they say "I expected more".

What is missing from OSX that you would love to see because I see a fair few of these posts whenever a new OSX is released and they never really say what they think is missing.
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Take a look at Windows 8.
 
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