Pretty much. There are other messaging protocols that do basically everything iMessage does (and outside of the US, they're fairly ubiquitous). A better resolut

Pretty much. There are other messaging protocols that do basically everything iMessage does (and outside of the US, they're fairly ubiquitous). A better resolution to all of this would have been for everyone to just switch to Matrix/Signal -- heck even WhatsApp would be an improvement. It seems to be a uniquely American problem that I can't get any of my contacts (on Android too, by the way, users there are just as apathetic) to switch to secure cross-platform messaging services. In a better world all this talk about RCS and SMS bridges wouldn't matter because we'd all have already abandoned SMS entirely.