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But iMessages isn't, ensuring its continued irrelevance in countries that are not the United States of America.

• strbean 5y ago
  If iMessage is supported on Android, that means that Apple users can to communicate with ex-Apple users without messages getting randomly black-holed. How else is Apple supposed to punish those who leave their ecosystem?
  • Hamuko 5y ago
    >How else is Apple supposed to punish those who leave their ecosystem? Memoji support on Android.
  • xmprt 5y ago
    Apple currently sees this as a competitive advantage but it's only a matter of time before these anti-consumer practices like locking down iMessage, high app store fees, not supporting right to repair, and planned obsolescence come to bite them in the back. Allowing everyone to use Facetime is just the first sign of this. Probably because they realized that very few people were using Facetime if they couldn't chat with non-Apple friends.
• sgt 5y ago
  Among iPhone users, iMessage is heavily used as it's simply the most pleasant solution out there for messaging. For what it's worth, I'm in South Africa and about 95% of my friends have iPhones. WhatsApp is very popular here, but for chatting I probably check WhatsApp three times a day, and I use iMessage almost continuously.
  • pier25 5y ago
    It's anecdotal, but in Mexico and Spain I don't know a single iPhone user that uses Messages. Everyone uses Whatsapp.
  • umeshunni 5y ago
    > For what it's worth, I'm in South Africa and about 95% of my friends have iPhones. You seem to be a very strange bubble: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/south-africa https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/south-afri...
    • urbandw311er 5y ago
      Just a hunch but if you Google “South Africa rich poor divide” it might seem a little less strange.