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> Apple is almost certainly aware of this at the C-Suite level

What makes you think this?

iMessage is one of the primary moats keeping a lot of people on iPhone. I'm not necessarily as sure as the parent comment that the c-suite was briefed or anything, but I do think that iMessage exclusivity is pretty important to Apple

The risk here has never gotten near a point of being about Sunbird slowing down iPhone sales by allowing iMessage on Android. Beeper already has been doing a workaround for sending iMessages from other platforms for a while.

The issue is Sunbird's shoddy implementation in particular compromising the security of a bunch of their users' accounts, with a real Android OEM vouching for their service and shipping it on their new phone, giving Sunbird a big publicity boost in the process.

That's probably a fact, and still a very interesting fact because it seems mostly US-related. In central europe, not tha many people use iMessage or even know that it exists.

Outside the US it's rarely used, I doubt they care that much.

The funny thing is that exclusivity would have been broken by the digital markets act if it actually were a moat here in Europe. But it's not, nobody cares about iMessage here. Even iOS users.

iMessage is a relic, most people in Europe use WhatsApp and alternatives in other continents. The whole blue/green thing is just Apple-driven hype to remember folks that iMessage even exists.

This is not the case. WhatsApp is only prevalent outside the United States and doesn't compare to iMessage in terms of features, privacy, security, long-term storage of messages and media, etc.

As an Australian, you're wrong. The "blue/green" is US media driven clickbait, but iMessage is prevelant in many countries I've been to.

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