Of note is Google never took the plunge on any of these the way Apple did. Which one of those products failed back to SMS messenger for compatibility and provid

Of note is Google never took the plunge on any of these the way Apple did. Which one of those products failed back to SMS messenger for compatibility and provided a default rich communication option like iMessage? They've never tried anything like iMessage, no idea why. It would be a different story if they were goading Apple in public to interoperate with their version of iMessage, beloved and used by all Android users. But this position they're taking here just looks kind of lame.