[mr_toad]

> It's strange Apple doesn't sell an iMessage Android app

Apple doesn’t sell apps they sell hardware and services. There’s no incentive for them to provide a free iMessage app for android, and I doubt many people would pay for one.

[gkbrk]

> I doubt many people would pay for one.

Enough people paid for one. Enough to make Apple scared and use engineer time to ban/block people anyway.

[misnome]

Do we know that and that it wasn’t e.g. a massive influx of messages coming from a single hardware ID triggering an anti-spam system.

[gkbrk]

Since we're not Apple, we don't know. But if we take their word [0] for it.

> We took steps to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials in order to gain access to iMessage.

> We will continue to make updates in the future to protect our users.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/08/apple-cuts-off-beeper-mini...