Apple's iMessage team leader split into a private messaging application

Andrew Vyrros, who is responsible for developing iMessage and Facetime, just left Apple to set up his own company. The new company is called Layer, focusing on messaging application development.

The announcement of Vyrros leaving Apple was announced. However, TheVerge 's source said he had left Apple for several months. Previously, Vyrros was in charge of notification services, iTunes Genius, Game Center and Back to my Mac of Apple. Mr. Vyrros used to work at Steve Jobs's NeXT computer company.

Layer focused quite a lot of famous names in technology village. In addition to Vyrros , there is Jeremie Miller , one of the people who holds chat language copyright XMPP ( Jabber ); George Patterson, former director of the famous OpenDNS DNS service .

The Layer has not yet launched the product and the company will not only develop messaging applications but will also develop a multi-service platform. According to Vyrros, the reason is that this job is quite difficult: ' Building this application is really difficult. We want our application to be both secure, balanced, low on network and battery capacity, so new work becomes extremely difficult. But that also makes us feel challenged and excited. "

iMessage is one of Apple's most used applications. The company said the application has about 100 million users. Many users commented that iMessage works much more smoothly and smoothly than other OTT applications. The drawback of this app is that it can only be used on Apple devices.

Information of the head of iMessage team went on to continue to heat up the situation of the world OTT village. The hotly growing OTT market and "billion-dollar" acquisitions like Rakuten buying Viber or Facebook buying WhatsApp show that the world tech investors appreciate this market.