Absolutely. The "white earphone cord" thing was cool when iPods first came out (as an Apple brand PR thing) but iMessage is not cool because it has direct negat

Absolutely. The "white earphone cord" thing was cool when iPods first came out (as an Apple brand PR thing) but iMessage is not cool because it has direct negative consequences, especially among less kind social circles. But I have also found this true working with clients. They'd be like "you don't have an iphone?" and I'd have to show them my beautiful purple Xperia 1 to demonstrate why, but that should be redundant. But what I have also found is Android's negelgence. The standard Messages for Web was broken for myself, and is broken for many people (will keep disconnecting from phone). They seem to have introduced new "chat features" but they had yet to show up. Worse yet, my international Xperia wouldn't send group MMS properly with the standard Messaging app. But it would work on other apps. That is why I would highly recommend the Pulse app. It has dual sim support as well as a snappy web interface. It really should be the standard. I find joy in customizing my phone and figuring these things out, but the defaults need to be more sensible for android users. Nothing could be worse than cheaper phones subsidized by bloatware (ux wise).