I'm not sure I buy particularly the "Android users are jealous of a coherent ecosystem" part on two counts. The first because you just said there is outstandin

I'm not sure I buy particularly the "Android users are jealous of a coherent ecosystem" part on two counts. The first because you just said there is outstanding competition in the rich messaging space. Competition means a lot more than quantity of companies trying to do something. If, at a large scale, consumers are truly jealous of something they can't get without swapping hardware and OS providers to the message provider then competition is poor at best. The second because I'm an iPhone owning user who uses Beeper, it has much better multi-os iMessage sync without having to sync/mirror my phone locally. So it's not just Android users it's even owners/users of Apple's products wanting to break a bit out of needing to use a Mac to get proper access to their iMessage. This widens the overall scope of the discussion quite a bit. I will agree Beeper is entitled and lawmakers are clueless. We may differ on whether that entitlement is warranted or what lawmakers are clueless about though :).