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by wyager 3485 days ago
Apple's iMessage just detects when the other party is using an iOS device and sends them an iMessage instead of an SMS. The GP is right; cell service is so aggressively regulated that there's no hope of carriers adopting a better standard, so the best we can hope for is that at some point mobile OS distributors agree on some open standard like the Signal protocol.