Message Me?

My tech rant for the day:

EVERY DAY I receive well over 300 individual messages on facebook, twitter, email, texting, voicemail, skype, google voice and linked in. Regardless of how well organized I am (which is pretty fuckin' organized btw), my mind is riddled with confusion about where a certain message is, or what response channel is best to use when trying to get in touch with someone in a timely manner.

When are major tech companies going to realize that what the user wants is to keep it simple. Android has taken some amazing steps to consolidate messaging in a unified way, but has Apple? No.

Instead they introduce iCloud, which is available only to Apple users. So someone texting me to my iPhone who isn't an apple user means I can't respond from the iMessage texting app on my computer. WTF!

Open your doors, stop trying to make people commit to your environment exclusively - it would save us all a tremendous amount of time and mental energy to have ONE PLACE, where it all comes and goes from. It would also help us trust that you have our collective interests in mind when designing apps that are central to our modern tech-filled lifestyle.

There used to be an app called Trillian where you could send and receive messages from any social media platform... that was fantastic, but many instant messaging service providers have made it increasingly difficult for third parties to consolidate it all, forcing you to use their product all the time.

APPLE! Use some of your 90 billion in the bank and give me an app that is my central communication center - call it 'iRespectyourtime' for christ sake and get us past this archaic, time consuming bull shit of fragmented messaging systems and time consuming processes that we're bound to like never before.

Caveat - if someone has a magic app that already does this by all means, school me.