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Oddly enough I like the lock in… and it’s not apples fault, blackberry did it first with PIN messages and then BBM. Heck their slogan for the priv phone was privacy and exclusivity

You can still SMS anyone. But it’s much better on iPhone. They should not open iMessage to Android it’ll just turn into a big spammy dumpster fire.

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The big killer app for BBM, iMessage, and WhatsApp was the ability to send text messages for cheap/free relative to expensive and limited carrier SMS, especially on prepaid SIMs, and later to make full phone calls over WiFi. Skype was never this integrated to people’s contact lists and missed the boat with smartphones.

The issue is that iMessage is already a big spammy dumpster fire—in my experience. I get plenty of spam messages sent by email addresses essentially made up of random strings of characters

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