sure, 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 ha

sure, 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.