Ian Lamont writes “Apple has filed a patent for IM on moveable gadgets, which might mean that it’s on the brink of launch an IM client for the iPhone. The submitting is titled ‘moveable electronic instrument for fast Messaging’, and covers strategies for sending, receiving, and viewing ongoing conversations. The proposed GUI is much like Apple’s present interface for SMS. As for why iChat wasn’t enabled for the iPhone earlier, there is some attention-grabbing historical past and prognosis here, which also features a discussion of aim for the iPhone. IM also got here up in the discussions last yr about essentially the most-wanted features in iPhone 2.0.”
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