It's funny to read all the apple support here. I would guess most of these people have iphones and think apple just made a better product than google. That's no

It's funny to read all the apple support here. I would guess most of these people have iphones and think apple just made a better product than google. That's not the issue nor the truth. Android messages works great for Android to Android, just like iMessage, because it does the same thing: routes messages through Google servers if it can, and falls back to sms when it can't. So the issue is that Android to Apple (and vice versa) messaging sucks and Google is looking to fix that. Yes, it's in their business interest, but it's also in all consumers' interest. Though, making it better is certainly not in Apple's interest. They control this "cool-kid" narrative that has all apple users looking down upon anyone who doesn't use apple and thinking apple is just a better product.