UPDATED: What’s Apple.com/iChatMobile for? iPhone? iTablet? More iUnicorns?
UPDATED: Yeah, looks like Apple set up a simple redirect from apple.com/ichat[anything]to the main iChat page. Sigh. We still want it.
ORIGINAL: No sooner did iSlate.com surface than 9to5mac has noted that http://apple.com/ichatmobile doesn’t return a “page not found” error, but rather redirects to Apple’s iChat for Mac OS X.
Could be nothing, of course. (But if I didn’t post this next part, Chad would never forgive me). Or, in the best-case scenario, Apple is finally (finally) putting the pieces in place to launch an actual, mobile iChat application for the iPhone (and perhaps just-as-mytical at this point, iTablet).
Now whether it will be text-only IM, or use video, or indicates the 4th generation iPhone and rumored iSlate will have a front-facing camera is a box of crazy even we’re not opening this holiday season!
December 28th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Page not found.
December 28th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Page not found
December 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Also reporting page not found for me.
December 28th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
It’s apple.com/ichatmobile, not apple.com/mobileichat.
December 28th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Sounds like ichat for the iphone, they are probably prepping a how to page for it. I doubt its for any itablet, who the heck would want to use a tablet pc i would much rather a mini mac or something of the sort.
December 28th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
BlargahidhsIHSa! Fixed! Thanks!
December 28th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Apple make me sick
December 28th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I’d just hope it works more like BBM than regular iChat. I don’t know anyone with iChat/AIM – as it’s mainly a Nth American thing.
December 28th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
http://www.apple.com/ichatfornexusone
OMGZ! iChat is coming for the Google phone!!!
http://www.apple.com/ichatforwindowsmobile
And on win mobile!
http://www.apple.com/ichatfornokiasymbian
Even on the Symbian!!!
Go now my brothers and sisters, spread the rumor onto other websites, we must keep the mill rolling!
December 28th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
http://www.apple.com/ichataijhjiajihdjia also works
December 28th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Actually, if you put apple.com/ichat4483438 or replace those numbers with whatever you want, you’ll still get taken to an iChat page. Surely this means their web server just uses htaccess to look for iChat in the requested url and sends them to the most relevant page. Sorry, dudes, I’m thinking no iChat for WinMo, Nexus or Symbian. Possibly iPhone.
December 28th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Not true. Since the site redirects it must mean that Apple is making ichat for all the platforms.
I’m betting that the Aijhjiajihdjia is what the slate will be named, Apple likes to do things to throw people off.
December 28th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
What’s weird is that we haven’t seen nothing lately for the iPhone. I guess everyone is anxious! Something has to give.
December 28th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Not true? Pfft. It’ll make my day when Apple release iChat for this old Nokia 3310 in my drawer. Apple have some work up their sleeves to work wonders.
December 28th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
The guy in the picture looks pissed. He must not have an iPhone.
December 28th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Please apple answer my prayers, add iChat to the iphone with support not just for aim, gtalk and mobileme. But for facebook, yahoo, myspace, msn etc. Basically imagine Beejive IM fully integrated into the iPhone messaging app, with the final cherry on top being iPhone to iPhone messaging a la BBM. That would be reason enough for anyone to get an iPhone.
December 28th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Dragonfly,
iPhone-to-iPhone chat can already be done using the Ping! app. It’s on the App Store, and it’s free.
December 28th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Apple needs to incorporate iChat into the messages app.
December 28th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
@ Armchair, yeah Ping and Whatsapp are fine, I’ve got both of them in fact. But they just don’t have that Apple feel and finish to them. Users need an app that matches the quality of something like Beejive IM.
December 28th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Is this Armchair guy serious?
December 28th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
iChat for iPhone has been a rumor for every version since the first one. Is it really that desirable a feature? When I’m using my iPhone, 90% of the time, I’m not in a situation where I can stand still and point the phone at my head. I don’t even own a headset, and I never use speakerphone.
iChat for a Tablet seems much more likely to me. Ergonomically, you’re more likely to be in the right position for video chat while using a Tablet than a phone. And a camera for chat as well as interaction (and games) seems like a better hardware addition for a Tablet than a phone.
December 28th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
This is why I choose not to get engulfed in the rumor mill anymore, I’ll get excited when they make announcements
December 28th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
It’s a good thing I read the blog responses.
December 28th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
i think there gonna put a camera in front of watever there working on so it can be live chat?
hopefully a new iphone.
December 29th, 2009 at 12:05 am
@Frog Dont compare the function of iPhone to the Blackberry. Its a different type. You should compare iPhone to the Pre or Moto. I’m sick of people try to compare these together. It’s not comparable dump!
December 29th, 2009 at 2:06 am
No one cares.
December 29th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I would love to see iChat Mobile. That would an IM/Messaging app that could run in the background.
December 29th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Apple recently increase the resolution on iChat in Snow Leopard, I guess it had something to do with bandwidth – How much resolution will we get on the new iPhones on ATT with data rates that fluctuate ?