Maybe this is just a US centric issue? I have an iPhone for years, a lot of people I know too, yet I never saw anyone using iMessage, nor I personally use it. E

Maybe this is just a US centric issue? I have an iPhone for years, a lot of people I know too, yet I never saw anyone using iMessage, nor I personally use it. Everyone I know is using either Facebook Messenger, Line, Whatsapp, Telegram or a combination of both. SMS are dead, and are too costly to be used internationally to begin with. Apple could remove iMessage that are not SMS related (useful once a while to get a confirmation code) and most of the world wouldn’t even notice.