It's not just preinstalled, it forces you to make an account to use the phone and inserts itself into what was previously the most popular messaging system in

It's not just preinstalled, it forces you to make an account to use the phone and inserts itself into what was previously the most popular messaging system in the US. If apple did something like this with the mail app everyone would probably completely flip out, the only reason they don't is because SMS was already terrible.