This argument doesn't make any sense from a user standpoint though. It would only make sense if users insisted on only using iMessage exclusively and didn't acc

This argument doesn't make any sense from a user standpoint though. It would only make sense if users insisted on only using iMessage exclusively and didn't accept non-iMessage SMS messages at all. Getting an iphone and using iMessage doesn't make you less susceptible to spam text messages than Android users or people using other texting platforms, *because everyone uses SMS*. It's impossible not to.