> As for Apple’s ecosystem, while this research deals primarily with iPhones, other devices including Apple TV and iWatch are similarly affected by our findings.
The "correct" name for it is Apple Watch, just FYI.
Or "[Apple logo]Watch", in all their marketing materials. Which seems to have been transcribed as "AppleWatch" in the official closed captioning of the latest Apple keynote.
Meh, iWatch and iMessage are surefire ways to get people to think of the right product. Technically incorrect terms, but they'll get the message right.
The service is iMessage, but the client is "Messages" on both iOS and macOS. The client was previously called "iMessage", leading people to assume that the marque "iMessage" is no longer part of Apple's branding. But no; extensions you install inside Messages are still called "iMessage extensions", and so forth.
Actually, both clients have been named “Messages” as long as they’ve supported iMessage.
The iOS client has been “Messages” since iPhone OS 3.0; before that it was called “Text” and had “SMS” written inside the chat bubble in the icon. iMessage wasn’t introduced until iOS 5.0.
The macOS client was originally “iChat”, then “iChat AV”, then “iChat” again; in this era it supported multiple protocols including AIM and Jabber. In OS X 10.8, the client was renamed to “Messages” and gained iMessage support in addition to the older protocols. Support for the older protocols was removed in the just-released macOS 10.13.
Oh… you're right. During the betas, sending messages through Google Talk gave me an error [1], and I removed the account. But I guess it's still supposed to work, at least in the release version.
[1] With a delightful/odd error message: "The targeted service Potato has been discontinued".
Yeah. I think it's perfectly correct to still refer to it to "iMessage". While the client anyone is using is likely just called "Messages", it specifically uses what is referred to as "iMessage", among other possible ways (e.g. SMS, or Jabber on macOS).
The "correct" name for it is Apple Watch, just FYI.