That’s kind of why I’ve been very surprised by this whole thing. Apple made an Apple service for Apple users. Because no one else has succeeded in the US at t

That’s kind of why I’ve been very surprised by this whole thing. Apple made an Apple service for Apple users. Because no one else has succeeded in the US at taking over a large chunk of the market Apple became de facto bad and loses their rights. As almost every thread has pointed out, this situation is very unique to the US. Almost everywhere else other apps have taken over. So it’s not like Apple is PREVENTING people from using other apps. People just like it better. Just like most people like Google better as their search engine. It has a huge market share too but no one seems mad about that. (Their tying that to advertising IS horrible, but not an angle in the iMessage analogy) And as you said, Apple has announced RCS support. So I wonder if any of this will even matter much in a year or so.