Other than images and videos degrading, I'm always surprised by the number of people who care so much about iMessage.
Is it even the extra features or do people primarily care about blue/green bubbles?
Is it even the extra features or do people primarily care about blue/green bubbles?
Those are all surmountable things with chat apps and other third party software, but the beauty of iMessage is that I can make all that work with all my non-technical family members without having to explain anything. I can't get my parents to install something like Discord or Signal.
iMessage also recently introduced threading, and although it's not as good as something like Slack it's nice to have.
Some other nice features include sharing of attachments that MMS doesn't support like PDF files and contact cards.
The next big advantage is that seeing a blue bubble when you type in a phone number or receive a message is a relatively reliable indicator that you're about to talk to a human on a real cell phone and not a bot or spammer.