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Difference being that Apple doesn't have a visual indicator before you send the message to let you know you're sending it to a non-iMessage device.

Edit: I was completely wrong, iMessage does do that, my apologies.

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Sure it does. Apple shows the phone number/contact name and the send arrow in green if it is being sent to a non-iMessage recipient.

I haven't paid too much attention, but that hasn't been my experience. As recently as today when I type in a new number the text in the window defaults to green (a text message), after a brief lag it turns to blue when it validates it as an iMessage account. This all happens before you enter any text in the body.

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