Exactly right. I thought eBuddy was good when I first got my iPhone and went hunting for an IM app. But then I discovered Nimbuzz and was sold on its much better features, including Skype. But Nimbuzz's push notifications broke, and when they came back, they were still only 15 minutes, then an hour, and now only 4 hours. When they were broken, I went looking for a new app and it was at that time that Meebo was released. Rock solid. Almost indefinite push notifications support (I really cannot figure out why Nimbuzz refuses to extend the push notifications to a day or more). And being contactable at all is more important than Skype. Esp when I also have the official Skype client installed. Nimbuzz's push doesn't even include Skype, so it's not any better than the official client anyway (which also logs out immediately when you close it). Nimbuzz also limits you to one account per service. ie: 1 x MSN, 1 x AOL, 1 x Yahoo. But with Meebo, I have 3 MSN accounts, 1 x ICQ, 3 x Yahoo and 2 x AOL all configured and working simultaneously. So, why use anything but Meebo? I really don't know. It's not just plain shoddy like eBuddy, and it doesn't have artificially imposed limitations like Nimbuzz.
Get Meebo, you'll be happy.
On 14 August 2011 at 9:56 pm Tom said:
I prefer Nimbuzz over Meebo for the following two reasons: (1) Meebo won't allow you to sign on as Invisible. (2) Meebo shows ads in the chat window.
On 8 November 2011 at 4:48 pm Kevin said:
reason why i think meebo is the king of all the IM apps for iphone:
-free (yes its ad supported now, but the ad bar is semi appearing, and not fixed on the screen, rotating the iphone sideways also guarantees the bar wont show)
-push notifications are always and forever on, no other IM app offers this (confirmed from meebo staff)
-records chat history AND syncs it to the web browser, which you can have both iphone and browse logged in at the same time (also you can disable history if you want), no other IM app offer this either.
-has all the main IMs(MSN, ICQ, yahoo, AIM, gtalk, facebook chat, etc)
-very stable and assured security (confirmed from meebo staff)
-clean and simple UI
-fast and friendly customer support when needed
side note
-ability to completely delete your whole account if you want (ebuddy cannot; kind of fishy)
-ebuddy does not sync chat history or save history at all
-ebuddy only has 7day push when you get the pro, and up to 12hrs for the free version
-ebuddy has an annoying message that you cannot disble letting everyone know you are on ebuddy, " - on eBuddy moblie messenger www_ebuddy_com"
-ebuddy annoying random pop ups suggesting to try out ebuddy XMS
-ebuddy ads are always on and fixed on the screen, unless you pay $6.99 for the pro
-nimbuzz is becoming more of a VoIP calling app, which i would rather use a more widely popular app such as skype, magicjack, nettalk.
-meebo works on all 3 of the mobile OS's: iOS, android, and blackberry. i think this means something too, since nimbuzz has no BB support.
@Tom - when you log in to meebo on iphone, tab on "accounts" on the bottom right, scroll down and pick your status (online, away, or invisable). meebo has always had these 3 status's since version 1.0
