the much more insidious thing that I've repeatedly noticed and is not touched on in this article is that SMSes to and from iphone users, from my Android device,

the much more insidious thing that I've repeatedly noticed and is not touched on in this article is that SMSes to and from iphone users, from my Android device, are completely dropped about 5% of the time. I don't know if it's a problem with the carriers or what, and I've always just assumed it's an edge case Apple doesn't care about or they'd fix it. The problem with randomly (and rarely) dropping text messages is that it can drastically alter a conversation or even make it seem to both parties like they're being ghosted.