I heard this is really a big thing in the US yeah. Here in Europe iMessage isn't really a thing at all. Probably because apple's marketshare is so much lower.

I heard this is really a big thing in the US yeah. Here in Europe iMessage isn't really a thing at all. Probably because apple's marketshare is so much lower. I know many people with iPhones but nobody ever tried to invite me to an iMessage group chat. Nobody even tried to message me with it directly, because it would have switched over to SMS and I've literally never had an SMS from a person. Just automated notifications and spam. Not that we're much better off here because we're still stuck with proprietary stuff like WhatsApp but at least it's not locked to one platform.