I kind of wonder if this is just a mistake, and they used iChat when they meant SMS. That is, that they were actually asking people to rate the performance of using the SMS app (maybe they referred to it as iChat because the SMS does "look" like iChat). Just a guess.
Also, it seems sort of unusual that they'd ask people to rate EDGE performance in these various apps but not include Safari as one of the apps to ask about.
Except they were talking about EDGE performance and SMS does not use EDGE. Everyone needs to keep sending feedback to Apple telling them "We want real iChat at least for text".
Still that does make me wonder then why they didn't ask about Safari then. I guess maybe because Safari performance would have a lot more variables based on the sites someone used, while the other apps they asked about have more predictable performance.
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I kind of wonder if this is just a mistake, and they used iChat when they meant SMS. That is, that they were actually asking people to rate the performance of using the SMS app (maybe they referred to it as iChat because the SMS does "look" like iChat). Just a guess.
Also, it seems sort of unusual that they'd ask people to rate EDGE performance in these various apps but not include Safari as one of the apps to ask about.
Except they were talking about EDGE performance and SMS does not use EDGE. Everyone needs to keep sending feedback to Apple telling them "We want real iChat at least for text".
Good point, didn't think about that.
Interesting then.
Still that does make me wonder then why they didn't ask about Safari then. I guess maybe because Safari performance would have a lot more variables based on the sites someone used, while the other apps they asked about have more predictable performance.