Again, I don't understand why people try to defend Apple's shitty behavior here. As I said in my comment, I'm less arguing from the technical legal details and

Again, I don't understand why people try to defend Apple's shitty behavior here. As I said in my comment, I'm less arguing from the technical legal details and more from a "this is just shitty, monopolistic-preserving behavior that serves no benefit besides protecting a company's marketshare" perspective. Apple could trivially easily: 1. Allow better interoperability from 3rd party clients. All of Apple's "user security" arguments are complete and total BS given that iMessage already degrades to the most insecure method of communication if any messages (including group chats) contain a non-iMessage user. 2. Provide a compatible Android client for iMessage (like literally every other single message app out there). At the very least they could stop breaking other iMessage Android clients. 3. Make it easier to choose a text client on startup. 4. Support a more functional interoperability standard - which, thankfully, Apple has finally said they will do by supporting RCS, but only after it looked like they became wary that their blatant tactics would look too monopolistic from a regulatory perspective. There is just 0 user-centered rationale for defending Apple's behavior here.