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Cost of iMessage is built into the price of the iPhone and other apple products. Why would they pay to develop and maintain it for other devices? Apple doesn’
by adrr 6y ago
Cost of iMessage is built into the price of the iPhone and other apple products. Why would they pay to develop and maintain it for other devices? Apple doesn’t monetize their data like other messaging services/social networks. If apple charged $3/m for iMessage on Android would you pay it?
- room500 6y agoYes. I prefer Android phones, but I don't want my choice of phone to impact the communication between my friends and family. The only reason I consider getting an iPhone is for iMessage. I would gladly pay a monthly fee so I could use the phone I want AND communicate freely with the people in my social circles.
- endisneigh 6y agoYou're in luck: https://www.beeper.com/ https://www.beeper.com/ $10/month and you get your iMessage on Android.
- jonplackett 6y agosomeone needs to make a website hasbeeperbeenshutdownbyappleyet.com
- vips7L 6y ago> Beeper has two ways of enabling Android, Windows and Linux users to use iMessage: we send each user a Jailbroken iPhone with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage How do they make money doing this?
- room500 6y agoThanks for the link. It looks interesting. I would be willing to pay $10 if the solution wasn't so hacky... Maintaining a system solely to run unsupported software (in a way that I would have to imagine is against ToS somewhere) is just too risky to handle a critical piece of my communication. I can't drop a message - especially if my excuse for dropping messages is "the laptop in the corner of my closet had to install a security update and restarted on me"