iMessage — Apple’s answer to the text message — normally isn’t a cause of concern for most iPhone users. But it’s got ex-users of the iPhone in a tiff, sharing complaints and tales of woe: Texts irreplaceably lost, routed by iMessage to a divide-by-zero netherworld of “message not received.” Sobering stuff indeed.

Sick of it all, Apple has (finally) decided to free prior users of iOS from the shackles of iMessage. Bloggers rejoice, reminisce — and offer theories on Apple’s change of heart.

In IT Blogwatch, bloggers now get too many text messages.

Filling in for our humble blogwatcher Richi Jennings, is a humbler Stephen Glasskeys.

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