After Beta, Messages Will Be Exclusive to OS X Mountain Lion

Friday February 17, 2012 4:07 am PST by Arnold Kim

Consomac has discovered that the OS X Lion Messages Beta that was released yesterday will not be a permanent feature for Lion users. Messages is the new iMessage-compatible version of iChat that will be included in OS X Mountain Lion. Apple also released a public beta version for OS X Lion users to try the app in the meanwhile.

Based on the text strings found in the App's resources, it has been revealed that Messages will no longer be available for Lion users once the beta expires. Instead, Apple tells users to visit the App Store to purchase OS X Mountain Lion to continue to use Messages:
Thank you for participating in the Messages Beta program. With the inclusion of Messages in OS X Mountain Lion, the Messages Beta program has ended.

To continue using Messages, please visit the Mac App Store and purchase OS X Mountain Lion.
OS X Mountain Lion will be a paid update and is expected to be released in late summer.

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CplBadboy
103 months ago
Damn you Apple. I love your products but unbelievable greed excretes form every pore of you. If it isn't bad enough that my 2007 blackbook won't run Mountain Lion you now are denying your faithful customers useful features. Listen i can't afford a nice shiny new Mac to have this feature, so how about you cut the little guy some slack and make this available to all. :mad:
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ouimetnick
103 months ago
I was thinking after beta, Messages will be $0.99 for Lion users, and included with Mountain Lion. This is what they did with FaceTime.
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Macintosheux
103 months ago

Kinda sucks considering they replaced iChat. Will they have to push an update to Lion users to rip them off of an update? wtf

There is an other message in the source code giving you the option to reinstall iChat. ;)
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djrod
103 months ago
Not fair Apple, not fair.

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I was thinking after beta, Messages will be $0.99 for Lion users, and included with Mountain Lion. This is what they did with FaceTime.


That, I can understand
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Bodypainter
103 months ago
This Is The side about Apple that i don't like at all. They are artificially limiting The User and know that this Is how they can Pressure him to Upgrade. it's incredible that such behaviour would lead to People hating Microsoft if they die that, but Apple Fans so Not speak up against it and 'swallow' this unfaithful Trick against Apples own customers.
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Aniday
103 months ago
Kinda sucks considering they replaced iChat. Will they have to push an update to Lion users to rip them off of an update? wtf
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Calidude
103 months ago
This is only surprising to Apple loyalists who think Apple makes the grass grow.
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m2uk
103 months ago
A stupid, artificial bad move from Apple. Or at least make iChat able to send the iMessages, even if you cannot use whatever the latest whizzy feature is.
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MRU
103 months ago
Clever marketing. Get people using the beta, get people to upgrade to ML. Though I also suspect the folks who are reading this and downloading a beta would be upgrading to ML anyway...
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Porco
103 months ago

This Is The side about Apple that i don't like at all. They are artificially limiting The User and know that this Is how they can Pressure him to Upgrade. it's incredible that such behaviour would lead to People hating Microsoft if they die that, but Apple Fans so Not speak up against it and 'swallow' this unfaithful Trick against Apples own customers.


I agree with you, and I for one have been charmed by your unusual interpretation of the use of capital letters.
Rating: 10 Votes

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