[simondotau]

> Your anecdotal lived experience is not representative of the entire population.

Of course. That goes without saying. But neither you nor this person you cherry picked from a Google search is representative either. (And it's noteworthy that you had to drill down into Google search results in order to find a useful citation. That alone is evidence of iMessage spam not being a broadly pervasive issue.)

> You're missing the point. iMessage spam (though it does exist as I've shown above)

Huh? I never said it didn't exist.

> is not the problem.

Huh? I never said it was the problem.

> The problem is iMessage doesn't have a good way to "verify" that messages that purport to be from Apple or anyone else truly are from a known and trusted sender.

I completely agree. I never disputed that.