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by pmontra 1022 days ago
I just checked and Google does have a Messages app, different from the Messages app on my phone, probably by Samsung, which deals with SMSes. According to Play it has 1B+ downloads so it's probably preinstalled.

Anyway, the competitor of iMessage and Messages is WhatsApp. Nobody is sending me SMSes except banks so even iPhone users use WhatsApp to send messages to friends and to groups in my country. If somebody would insist using only iMessage they would be out of the loop. And about Messages, well, I don't have that app, I receive no SMSes, I still communicate with everybody so I guess that nobody uses Messages too.