Apple’s iMessage problem is worse than we thought

[Wireless News]

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/b3.m0GuxgH18novc8CtZ6w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/ios-7-imessage.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/apple-imessage-problem-worse-thought-122055371.html)Apple has a lot of very unhappy former iPhone users on its hands and it doesn’t look like the problem is getting fixed anytime soon. For those of you who haven’t heard, there’s a major bug in Apple’s iMessage software that will prevent you from receiving text messages from other iPhone users if you’ve switched to a phone that runs on a rival operating system. The problem arises when people switch from the iPhone to Android or Windows Phone without changing their phone number — apparently, Apple keeps that number in its data base and still has it marked as belonging to an iPhone user. This means that any text messages sent through iPhones to that-number get stuck in Apple’s



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