If iMessage was available on Android, would you use it? Why or why not?

[Jeramy Johnson]

With the recent reports confirming Apple had discussions to bring iMessage to Android as far back as 2013, it got me wondering how things might have been different. Jerry even wrote an interesting opinion piece on it, claiming it was Facebook who benefitted most from this decision. https://www.androidcentral.com/imagining-world-where-imessage-came-android

 

[spARTacus]

...The huge costs of sending the large amounts of data from the servers to the individual phones is paid for by Apple with no limits to the data size.

I guess I don't view that much differently than what Yahoo or Hotmail or Google or Outlook would pay for handling emails from their servers, or Zoom for example for handling video calls. From the perspective of iMessaging for Apple, basically part of what Apple pays for its connection to the internet. I have never really thought about how much of Apple's overall internet connection is needed to keep iMessaging going. That would be an interesting stat, relatively.

 

[Morty2264]

Perhaps due to the way Apple sends them. I am sure they are not interested in helping to make the experience on the Android receiving side better, but they are very interested in the Apple to Apple experience being smooth.

Oh, for sure Apple isn't! And the experience *does* seem to be seemless, when I see it done from Apple to Apple.