When Apple outed the new iMessage feature in iOS 5 last night, it wasn’t just the first time we’d seen the feature, it was the first time carriers has seen it too.
The feature which will enable owners of iOS devices to fire messages off in a manner more than a little bit like BlackBerry Messenger is bound to lure people away from SMS and the networks didn’t have a clue…
Late last night, John Gruber at Daring Fireball said: “A well-informed little birdie tells me that Apple’s phone carrier partners around the world found out about iMessages when we did: during today’s keynote.”
We’ve called around several of our contacts at UK networks carrying the iPhone and they say the same: Apple sprung this one on its partners. Oh dear…
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