[jaywalk]

That's fantastic that you have a mobile number that works. How can you use it on a WiFi-only tablet to send messages to people using that number?

Yeah, I know, you use third-party apps for that. That's not the point.

[pedrocr]

How is a third-party app that's available for both Android and iOS worse than iMessage that's iOS only? How is a mobile number that can be bought from literally hundreds of different carriers all over the world worse than an Apple ID that only Apple can provide and can take away at any time?

[chrismorgan]

Haven’t done it on a tablet, but from my laptop I SSH into my phone and run sxmo_modemsendsms.sh ‹contact-name-or-number› ‹message›. :-)

[jaywalk]

Ah, sorry. I didn't realize this problem was solved for the general public already :)