Why There’s No iMessage for Android

People take it for granted that a Verizon customer can call an AT&T or T-Mobile customer with their telephone.

Why do people take it for granted that they can't send an instant message from one instant message client to another?

If the E.U. was serious about human rights in the electronic age, antitrust, and not being dominated by foreign firms like Facebook and TikTok they would legislate interoperation between IM clients.

It's astonishing how nothing has changed between AOL messenger except and Facebook messenger except one was tied to AOL and the other is tied to Facebook.

Eddy Cue also talked about what Apple does “to get people hooked to the ecosystem,” and Epic also presents evidence that this is why Apple never offered iMessage on Android.

Craig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering and the executive in charge of iOS, feared that “iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove [an] obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones” […]

Schiller commented that “moving iMessage to Android will hurt us more than help us.”