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I don't see Apple ever opening up iMessage for any device other than their own. iMessage has some neat features but nothing that is totally unique from things l
by moftz 10y ago
I don't see Apple ever opening up iMessage for any device other than their own. iMessage has some neat features but nothing that is totally unique from things like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, PushBullet, etc. Apple isn't making any money directly off of iMessage, its a feature of their platform. Opening it up would just increase Apple's cost for running it and remove one of the last things that makes an iPhone unique over the other major flagship phones. It's their killer app in a world where all phones look alike and all run near identical hardware specs.
- dilap 10y agosure, but this was the same argument about keeping ipods mac only, itunes, safari, etc. there's some truth in it, but overlooks the much larger advantages of having more people use your stuff, and, most importantly, of owning a dominant platform. owning the de-facto messaging platform would be a hugely great position to be in. right now messaging is mostly just that, messages, but there's a ton of stuff that would be quite natural to integrate into and on top of it (look to china as an example). also, like you say, messaging apps themselves aren't super-rare; it's not like oh-my-god secret sauce selling 1000x iphones. but it does happen to be, arguably, the nicest messenger that's currently out there. if they opened it up to android, they could become the dominant messaging platform (maybe). huge wasted opportunity.