[OSX-Users] Re: OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) & Messages

[Tim Chown]

Indeed.

So if you use your phone mainly for texts (esp. to other iphone users) and data, you *might* want to ramp the voice package you have (with included texts) down a level or two.

Tim

On 17 Feb 2012, at 11:06, Sebastian C Skuse wrote:

> It will go as an iMessage if possible, if the device is not reachable it will fall back to SMS. iMessages sent to my iPhone using my phone number do not appear on my iPad or Messages.app on the Mac.
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> Seb
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> On 17 Feb 2012, at 10:59, Vladimiro Sassone wrote:
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>> Thanks Jules,
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>> On 17 Feb 2012, at 10:42, Jules wrote:
>>>   Currently, to get a message to someone's iPhone, you must use their Apple ID email address or another email address they have listed as an alternative address. If you send it to their phone number, only the iPhone will receive it and not their Mac or iPad. Apple know all about this problem and are working on a solution.
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>> There is something wrong in the sentence above. Isn't it the case also for the iPhone app? It seems to me that to use iMessages you need to send to an Apple ID, if you use the phone number the message will go as an SMS. Or not?
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