Also last year, Marcel sent me a build of Buddies, an app I had comped up and shared online. We started working on refining it together with Johannes, complete with a retro app icon. A screenshot of Buddies, a list of contacts to launch directly into Messages and FaceTime.In the transition from services like AOL Instant Messenger to services like iMessage, I think we lost the intentionality of chatting with friends. Weirdly, I also feel like I lost a very specific buddy-list shaped window on ...
