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iMessage is one of the primary moats keeping a lot of people on iPhone. I'm not necessarily as sure as the parent comment that the c-suite was briefed or anything, but I do think that iMessage exclusivity is pretty important to Apple

[hbn]

The risk here has never gotten near a point of being about Sunbird slowing down iPhone sales by allowing iMessage on Android. Beeper already has been doing a workaround for sending iMessages from other platforms for a while.

The issue is Sunbird's shoddy implementation in particular compromising the security of a bunch of their users' accounts, with a real Android OEM vouching for their service and shipping it on their new phone, giving Sunbird a big publicity boost in the process.

[wkat4242]

The funny thing is that exclusivity would have been broken by the digital markets act if it actually were a moat here in Europe. But it's not, nobody cares about iMessage here. Even iOS users.

[toyg]

iMessage is a relic, most people in Europe use WhatsApp and alternatives in other continents. The whole blue/green thing is just Apple-driven hype to remember folks that iMessage even exists.

[qubitcoder]

This is not the case. WhatsApp is only prevalent outside the United States and doesn't compare to iMessage in terms of features, privacy, security, long-term storage of messages and media, etc.

[averageRoyalty]

As an Australian, you're wrong. The "blue/green" is US media driven clickbait, but iMessage is prevelant in many countries I've been to.

[chrisandchris]

That's probably a fact, and still a very interesting fact because it seems mostly US-related. In central europe, not tha many people use iMessage or even know that it exists.

[dontlaugh]

Outside the US it's rarely used, I doubt they care that much.