I’ve always been curious about this too, and the answers here are not exactly enlightening. They seem to boil down to either SMS being cheaper in the U.S.A. and

I’ve always been curious about this too, and the answers here are not exactly enlightening. They seem to boil down to either SMS being cheaper in the U.S.A. and the lack of unlimited texting in Europe (not true), or “because I use it”. I like Messages, I think it’s great, but that doesn’t explain what happened here.