Meebo Now Works on iPhone: Ultimate IM

By Sid Yadav    July 4th, 2007

MeeboNot everyone was lining up for an iPhone on Friday. At least, the folks at Meebo, a web-based IM startup, were busy finding workarounds to getting their app to run on the iPhone, which seemed to freeze whenever someone tried to press ‘Send’ after typing a message, among others. Today, it looks like they’ve come up with a few temporary solutions which just might do the trick.

First, a lot of elements of their application were dysfunctional, which can now be accessed by double-tapping and holding. Also, they’ve somehow seemed to have solved the ‘Send’ problem by the addition of a ‘Go’ button in the keyboard layout (which does the work of their Send button). For an iPhone users who wants a Window-y multi-chat/IM experience, the Meebo application seems like their best bet for now.

We have to admit, if we’d known this before we made the top iPhone applications/web apps list, Meebo would have a top spot. Nevertheless, give it a try if you’ve got an iPhone and tell us what you think. If it’s as good as it looks, and if we can expect an actual/official widget application in the future, it could be killer app-worthy.

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(Image Credit: CNET/WebWare)

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  • Peter blake
    Hi guys,

    Like to play sudoku ? Want to play on your iPhone ?

    http://www.iphone-sudoku.com

    Enjoy !
  • But at least this one came out first on the iPhone. cheers for them
  • awww man i thought it said unlimited IM lol. But I gotta hand it to them this app is worth the time their developers spent making it. Though it seems a little bit like MyBlogLog. But I don't know which site came first so I cant judge.
  • Brad
    Developers have expressed a lot of frustration with Apple's decision to limit application development to "Web 2.0 Standards" (whatever that means). This is an understandable complaint -- web applications have a lot of constraints that "normal" applications simply don't have (access to core OS facilities, etc).

    In light of this, it's great to see companies such as Meebo embracing these constraints and getting their products out there anyway. In doing so, they demonstrate the ability to innovate and they create a niche for themselves at the same time.

    This product fills a gaping hole in the iPhone: there's no native IM client. If Apple had built an IM client in to the phone, the opportunities for companies such as Meebo to step up and greet a new market would be much slimmer. Instead of being frustrated by the constraints placed on application development on the iPhone, perhaps developers ought to celebrate them: where there are limitations, there is opportunity.
  • Wow, this makes me want to get an iPhone real bad. Not because of Meebo exactly, but because so much is happening! But I didn't find a link to the iPhone version... or perhaps that managed by the CSS and an iPhone-optimized version automatically loads if you're viewing from the device? I'm impressed it can do Gtalk (should I be?).
  • Haha, pretty soon you're going to see little tiny fan attachments by the name of 'iCool' that keep your iPhone cooled up for apps like Meebo. If not, I'm going to make one. ;-)
  • gar
    it works...but not too good. My iphone started to slow down and each key stroke looked like it was in slow motion. I could swear that the back of the iphone was heating up too!!
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