iMessage is an out and out embrace, extend, extinguish play not at all unlike Microsoft of the 1990s. It exists alongside standardized text message formats, and

iMessage is an out and out embrace, extend, extinguish play not at all unlike Microsoft of the 1990s. It exists alongside standardized text message formats, and subverts the user's expectations of them by behaving differently in some cases. Two big items are that it's designed to add group texting features in a way that makes non-iMessage clients not respond correctly (reply instead of reply all, but only sometimes) making users of competing standards seem rude in social situations. On top of that, it will lose your data if you unsubscribe (http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-must-go-to-court-over-disappearing-imessage-fiasco-judge-says/ http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-must-go-to-court-over-disappe...)