people on iMessage see the difference between SMS and iMessage ALL THE TIME! I have friends that refuse to respond to my SMS messages in iMessage, since I have

people on iMessage see the difference between SMS and iMessage ALL THE TIME! I have friends that refuse to respond to my SMS messages in iMessage, since I have an android phone - We use FB Messenger to communicate instead. Users are extremely sensitive to latency. I would ditch a chat client with any real latency in a heartbeat.