On Android, can WhatsApp do SMS? At least previously any app could interface with SMS on Android. Few countries (only the US? Canada?) actually have any real s

On Android, can WhatsApp do SMS? At least previously any app could interface with SMS on Android. Few countries (only the US? Canada?) actually have any real social usage of SMS at this point. That’s becoming increasingly the case in the US as well, Apple/iMessage aside. Everyone else has picked an app instead (usually given an effectively local monopoly to an every changing array of owners over the last 20 years). That’s true even on Android without this SMS gatekeeping status that you speak of. Given the world is majority android, and the lack of SMS/RCS leading to any kind of decentralization, your argument doesn’t seem to have much merit that opening up iMessage would usher in a new decentralized era.