fwiw in this case iMessage is easily funded by all the profit Apple earns off of iPhone/iPad sales, app store 30%, and iCloud subscriptions. It's not as if Appl

fwiw in this case iMessage is easily funded by all the profit Apple earns off of iPhone/iPad sales, app store 30%, and iCloud subscriptions. It's not as if Apple is being forced to let millions of Android users communicate with each other for free over iMessage - Beeper exists because people want to communicate with Apple's customers, who already paid them money.