[ryandvm]

Android users do not want iMessage. What they want is their friends to stop telling them to buy an iPhone because Apple ignores the RCS standard and does a purposely shitty job of integrating SMS group chat into iMessage.

I'm generally pretty laissez faire about technology, but when it comes to things that have achieved high market adoption, I am more sympathetic to the EU's position of enforcing standards.

I have no idea why people support corporations creating these weird little walled garden fiefdoms that are actively user hostile. This seems to be a relatively new phenomenon. Imagine how stupid it would be to have to have an Apple phone to call another Apple user. Or to have to go to a Ford gas station to fill your car. Or if you could only send/receive email with other Gmail users.