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Because AT&T was a monopoly... There are a zillion messaging clients... Signal, Slack, Discord (all of them work on iPhone)... Sms is a protocol, iMessage work

Because AT&T was a monopoly... There are a zillion messaging clients... Signal, Slack, Discord (all of them work on iPhone)... Sms is a protocol, iMessage works with that (it is connected to the network)... As an aside, the old ATT phones were nearly indestructible. Everything that came after was a race to the bottom.

eli 3y ago
Cell carriers did the same thing up until the iPhone. That wasn't quite a full and free market, but there were at least a competitors and they all did it because they could.