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Post your comments for Mountain Lion: Messages replaces iChat, gets public beta here

[KevinLeeAllen]

Can you share screens with this?

[wingsy]

KevinLeeAllen, on 16 February 2012 - 06:05 AM, said:

Can you share screens with this?

In keeping with Apple's recent policy of removing functionality with each passing "upgrade", I'm betting you can't.

[SNOHO]

The lack of a "buddy its" is a big negative. That feature is in both lotus notes and Office Communicator.

How does this play with Notes and Communicator users? Critical in an office/engineering environment!

And what of screen sharing? I see no mention of this feature.

There seems to be room for more development!

[macsterguy]

wingsy, on 16 February 2012 - 06:17 AM, said:

KevinLeeAllen, on 16 February 2012 - 06:05 AM, said:

Can you share screens with this?

In keeping with Apple's recent policy of removing functionality with each passing "upgrade", I'm betting you can't.

I'm betting you are right...

Here's how it will go, you can buy apple remote desktop (ARD) from the MacApp store and restore this once free service OR do it thru Back To My Mac which was once a MobileMe service which has the same name but is now part of iCloud which should go a long way to confuse more folks (I know there are other way's but this is Apple's way). Oh well, I will just do that while I look for something to replace Galleries (PhotoStream? Really?), Keychain sync, iDisk and others... sheeesh

Besides... Everyone knows a Lion can whip a Mountain Lion any day... <---- also bass akwards (just a little rant and humor everyone :-)

[petermillard1]

+1 more asking about screen sharing? It's an extremely useful feature for anyone trying to support/troubleshoot from a distance e.g. elderly parents, and it would be very disappointing if it wasn't supported.

[fruitpunchben]

What I'm wondering about is whether you can sign in with the same email address on iMessage (iOS) and Message (OS X)? I don't understand how that would work. But I have 3 email addresses, 2 Macs an iPhone and an iPad. How am I supposed to arrange communicating between them all? Start a new iCloud email address just for Message?

[meta]

Yeah, please check if it still allows screen sharing.

Also, please check it interoperates for video chat with the old iChat.

[mojo66]

There are two menu entries like in iChat, "Share my Screen" and "Ask to Share Remote Screen" so I'm assuming the functionality is there, I couldn't try it out yet, however.

[jdb8167]

wingsy, on 16 February 2012 - 06:17 AM, said:

KevinLeeAllen, on 16 February 2012 - 06:05 AM, said:

Can you share screens with this?

In keeping with Apple's recent policy of removing functionality with each passing "upgrade", I'm betting you can't.

Still there under the Video menu. You can download it and try it out if you are using Lion.

iMessages Beta Ready for Download

This post has been edited by jdb8167: 16 February 2012 - 07:44 AM

[mojo66]

There are two menu items like in iChat, "Share my Screen" and "Ask to share remote screen". I couldn't test any of them yet, however.

[mojo66]

There are two menu items like in iChat, "Share my Screen" and "Ask to share remote screen". I couldn't test any of them yet, however.

[PrachiGauriar]

KevinLeeAllen, on 16 February 2012 - 06:05 AM, said:

Can you share screens with this?

Yes. Messages continues to allow screen sharing with non iMessage users.

Seriously folks, Messages is just iChat + iMessage and a new name. Everything that was there before seems to be there now. If you hated iChat before and you don’t view iMessage to be a compelling enough feature to change your mind, you will hate Messages. Conversely, if you liked iChat before, I can’t see how this would make you dislike it.

[jdb8167]

PrachiGauriar, on 16 February 2012 - 07:59 AM, said:

Seriously folks, Messages is just iChat + iMessage and a new name. Everything that was there before seems to be there now.

This is very true. The actual application folder is still called iChat.app even though the name in the Finder is Messages. Download the beta and do a Get Info on the application.

This post has been edited by jdb8167: 16 February 2012 - 09:07 AM