Apple has versions of iMessage for Android with Design … – CNET in Spanish

Apple has several prototypes of the app iMessage for Android, ” says the blogger John Gruber.

The prototypes have different interfaces, since some are very similar to the interface of iMessage on Android, until a version that is adopted to the Design Material, the guidelines for developing applications for Android.

Gruber, recognized in the blogosphere for having good contacts in the rows of Apple, says that “some birds” and gave these details.

Gruber says that it is possible that iMessage for Android would never see the light of day, but given that iMessage is a messaging service, and the category of Services is increasingly important to Apple, there is an “absolute no” to the release of the app to the eternal rival.

for a long time you have been around the rumors of the arrival of iMessage for Android. The most recent dating back to June of this year, prior to the conference for developers WWDC. The site MacDailyNews said that the app would be announced during the event of developers of Apple, something that had not happened.

For Apple, to keep iMessage as an exclusive for iOS, and macOS gives you a competitive advantage, as its platform of iOS has over 1,000 million users, and a large percentage of those users are in the united States, a region that iMessage is more popular than any other app such as WhatsApp or Line.

however, there is the case of BlackBerry and its messaging platform BlackBerry Messenger. The application was very popular among owners of a cell phone canadian, but with the arrival of the iPhone and other apps for messaging, the app lost its mojo. Later, BlackBerry launched BBM, as it was known to the app, to other platforms — but it was already too late.

Now, Apple has apps on Android, be Apple Music the most important. While the app offers many features that are present in the app for iOS, the version in Android has not received the design of iOS 10. Tim Cook, ceo of Apple, said that Apple’s Music is just the beginning and depending on your hosting, it will launch more apps for Android.