[theinternetman]

>I don't care how the message is sent, as long as it is sent.

Friend of mine has an iPad and an iPhone, often her iPhone data plan runs out so I send a message, it's blue and acts like it's delivered.... then I get a reply 6 hours later when she finally gets home and sees it on her iPad because the iPhone never received it because it didn't have a data connection.

Worst part is sometimes I know I need to send it SMS and it's a real pain trying to convinced iMessage to send SMS when it think the person is online with iMessage due to an iPad being left on somewhere. Can never remember which tap and hold dance actually gives me the SMS option.

[nol13]

This x1000. Plus when it silently decides to send emails instead, or you email as caller id address, or whatever it does. When my Dad asks "Why I'm I getting emails from text messsages" I don't know, don't care to know, and will respond by not using iProduct. Don't care if it's a setting or what, if you're going to merge different services then be explicit about it. Don't have time to figure out what you thought was best for me.

[vitd]

Is that Messages or is that the phone company that does that? Mine always come from an AT&T email account with some generic sender, like "[e-mail]".

[nol13]

Ya I've had those too. Think it's a separate issue but was never able to figure it out.

[X-Istence]

Tap and hold the message you sent over iMessage. Click send as sms.

[mbreese]

Which is a totally undiscoverable feature.

[dhimes]

Not only is it undiscoverable, you don't even think you need to do it. Like others said- you take out your phone, send a quick message, put your phone away and do something, only to find out your message wasn't sent. Possibly because the recipient, unknown to you, didn't have data access.

[Zombieball]

Undiscoverable features is the new way to design apps! Look at Snapchat

[danudey]

'Swipe randomly in random directions from random screens until you see something you didn't know was there' is the new 'simple and direct'.