Apple’s iMessage lock-in is a documented strategy. Using peer pressure and bullying as a way to sell products is disingenuous for a company that has humanity and equity as a core part of its marketing. The standards exist today to fix this.

iMessage should not benefit from bullying. Texting should bring us together, and the solution exists. Let’s fix this as one industry. 💚💙

@Android Eventually you'll arrive at 2022 and the 21st century and realise that NO ONE uses SMS anymore. iMessage is absolutely irrelevant outside the USA. That's why there's no "fix" for it. Because it's not an issue for anyone EXCEPT Americans who live in a bubble stuck in 2001.

@Android You’ve had several attempts to fix texting on your platform and have failed every single time. Maybe start there. It’s not the iPhone that’s bad, it’s you.

@Android This has nothing to do with bullying. The real reason that you want iMessage for Android is because Google’s tired of wasting 16 years and tens of millions of dollars on failure after failure.

@Android @zel640 Android is right. They male a few dozen of these solutions all the time and cancel the projects regularly. You've solved it so well your current Messages app still prompts me to use a feature that requires Hangouts, which was shuttered years ago.

@Android Just phase out SMS & it would solve the problem.

@Android 100%. Technology has the power to bring us together and improve our lives.💚💙