iKnow, iGet it. Make way for iMessage.

These programs have been around a long time: Windows messenger, Yahoo messenger, AIM, Google. Now the War of the Instant-Text Messaging Services has begun with fingers blazing, in this case, for inputting text. The programs mentioned up top are like 8 ball jackets, a blast from the past. These days, ITM( instant text messaging) programs are ruled by Juggernauts like Kakao Talk, and… Kakao Talk.  This program has been putting up gargantuan numbers in the user/smart phone ratio standard.  What makes this program so hot? It connects users through a username and/or a phone number picked from their phonebook/contact list on their smart phone.. No registration required.  It is updated regularly and right now has more users than any other ITM program. Basically, it’s a way to text to any one of your friends, anywhere in the world, for absolutely free.  Kakao is like the only thing iPhones and Androids have in common…. At least for now.

Apple is getting ready to release iMessage, an instant-text messaging program with features that include group messaging, delivery and read receipts, typing notification and secure encryption. It will be available on iOS 5 iPhones, iTabs, and iPods.  But besides it’s sleek look, users, this is open exclusively for iPhone/iTab users only.  Will this be a huge setback for Kakao users? Who knows but some of the features on iMessage are very hard to resist. 

.I assume in the near future, these phone companies will have to add incredible amounts of minutes to get people to use their talking time.  Everything will probably be in text messages. Who knows? At the rate of how human communication is transitioning for convenience, in a thousand years, we’ll probably just have to think of the word to send it.