


Apple also announced an App Store for the platform in 2016. In 2016, Eddie Cue announced that 200,000 iMessages were being sent every second. In early 2012, Apple announced that a new Messages app would be included in OS X Mountain Lion which was released on July 25, 2012.īy 2012, Tim Cook announced that over 300 billion messages had been sent using iMessage. When iOS 5 was released in October, it included a version of the messages app that had iMessage built-in. IMessage was announced by Scott Forstall at the WWDC keynote in 2011.
