"Secret...lock-in feature" iCloud doesn't poll your phone every damn minute to check if it still has that number's SIM card inserted The author even acknowled

"Secret...lock-in feature" iCloud doesn't poll your phone every damn minute to check if it still has that number's SIM card inserted The author even acknowledges it's a bug, and still calls it a "lock-in" Secondly, iMessage and SMS messages are, with the exception for colourblind people, very distinctive: if you can't tell the difference between blue and green, you have an issue. The fact that it took a director to figure this out astounds me. Thirdly, the author's insinuation that the senders iPhone "intercepts" a text is false: the phone knows there is an iMessage compatible device associated with this number (consider the recievers service being cut, but they keep the phone on WiFi), and so it sends it as an iMessage. It's not actively going "Oh this user has swapped to an Android device, let's piss him off in every way possible and treat this text as an iMessage, that'll get him!", it's working with the data it has in an attempt to be helpful to the receiver: they've run out of PAYG credit and can no longer sustain a data connection, but are in range of WiFi, so iMessage still stays online. It is trying to be helpful to the user, not a massive wanker Admittedly, they should check to see if a SIM card is still in the phone on boot, then register with iMessage In comparison to BBM, the only reason this is considered "lock-in" is because texts and iMessages are in the same place instead of two separate places Disable iMessage and turn the damn iPhone off for a week, then if that fails, run to an Apple Store Also, don't assume the worst, you will somewhere along the line regret it, and wonder "what if". You don't want to be on your deathbed with regrets P.S. if someone reading this has access to Apple's fabled Bug Reporter/Radar, file this behaviour as a "bug", or, if you're in a baiting mood, "lock-in feature". I would if I could.