Originally Posted by
SK122387 As someone who has used both, I prefer BBM a lot more. Imessage is extremely basic and lacks the full featured experience that BBM provides. The BBM on my first BlackBerry, the Pearl, had more features than IMessage does.
In iMessage:
�no avatar pictures of ANY kind
�no "Read," just "Delivered"
�the over all look and feel of it just appears sterile and plain. Bland.
I like BBM because you can send voice notes, location, and the "share with BBM contact" in menus is becoming more fully integrated into the UI, which I hope continues with BB10.
BBM also let's you change the chat bubble color for your contacts, which is a cool feature.
IMessage feels like an afterthought of Apple's, like they threw it into iOS5 because people were asking for it, not because they felt like spending time making it "special" which I think RIM has done quite well.