Apple was the first company to integrate a voice-controlled virtual assistant into a smartphone’s operating system, although its main competitors such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft have since come ...

Whatever you do, no matter how cool it sounds, do not use iMessage Chat for Android. The app, which allows Android users to send messages through Apple’s iMessage system and has already been ...

I told you recently that I'm a longtime iPhone user who is not interested in RCS-iMessage interoperability. I've never had a blue vs. green bubble problem when keeping in touch with my contacts who ...

Analyst Ben Bajarin recently talked to a teenage boy at his daughters’ school who had defected from an Android phone to iPhone because of “iMessage lock-in.” The boy said he was tired of being shut ...

Ever since Apple rolled out iMessages, Google has been trying to catch up, but the company never managed to come up with an instant messaging app that was just as good, or secure, as Apple's.

There’s nothing worse than being put into a group chat message on your phone (especially without your permission), and then hearing your phone blow up with endless pings. The only solution in that ...