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Free AIM Client Spotted on App Store

Tuesday July 1, 2008 10:31 am PDT by Arnold Kim

tclary spotted the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) client on the App Store during the Guided Tour posted today.

The AIM client will provide iChat compatible instant messaging for the iPhone and iPod Touch. AOL first demoed the app during the original iPhone SDK launch event, but have made no further announcements since that time.
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elppa
Posted: 51 months ago
How will this work if the APNS (Apple Push Notification Service) isn't live yet?

Also in the same video I noticed that the keynote and word files were zipped?

Does the current iPhone software have in built support .zip files like OS X or is this also something new?
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Klaxons2012
Posted: 51 months ago
Now I need to get some friends to chat with! Yesss!
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SkippyThorson
Posted: 51 months ago
If this counts towards the 200 per month texting, then I won't even care about it. :(

If it's free, aka unlimited AIM, then it will round out my top 3 first downloads including eBay and the iTunes Remote. :)
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xamkil83
Posted: 51 months ago
sweet finaly we can IM instead of having to use those expencive text messages. Since the new plans don't come with any...
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Sky Blue
Posted: 51 months ago


tclary spotted...


nope! that would've been me! ;)

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=508857#15
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caliguy
Posted: 51 months ago

If this counts towards the 200 per month texting, then I won't even care about it. :(

If it's free, aka unlimited AIM, then it will round out my top 3 first downloads including eBay and the iTunes Remote. :)


I'm almost sure that it wouldn't be counted as text messaging. It's just packets of internet data being transferred.
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stagi
Posted: 51 months ago
That would be cool
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cloudnine
Posted: 51 months ago

I'm almost sure that it wouldn't be counted as text messaging. It's just packets of internet data being transferred.


Yeah, you're probably right... I think the person who was concerned about it being charged as a text message must have had a Moto RAZR (or something similar), where the provider basically had a version of AIM installed on it which treated IM messages as text messages. I had that on Tmobile and almost died when I got my first cell phone bill... Ugh. That version of AIM is basically just a different GUI for the text message application.

Death on a stick.
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Hooka
Posted: 51 months ago
why would any of you think it would cost anything to send and receive a AIM message? I don't think AIM is going to start charging just Iphone users. lol
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B1gMac
Posted: 51 months ago
If it's available for the iPod touch, then obviously its not a text message...
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