[rwz]

I like the effort, but honestly there's tons of apps that are cross-platform, free, and can do everything imessages can, but better. Telegram is just one example.

I see adoption as a biggest problem. I personally tried to migrate to Telegram and failed to convince even my own wife to give it a try, since imessages work for her and all her friends are there and why bother.

[sdan]

Definitely the biggest problem is adoption.

My friends/coworkers aren't just going to jump onto another app just for a cooler feature. We use Messenger and everything is just fine. If we need to we can use Venmo/Calendar invite and that's it.