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My craziest prediction: iMessage for Android
That'd be great, but I don't think that's going to happen.
IIRC they openly stated in an interview that iMessage is one of people's greatest incentives to stick to the Apple ecosystem, and they have no plans of shooting themselves in the foot by releasing it on android.
Apple said they will not release a stylus and then they did.
One can still hope. They were already doing small optimizations with the help of Google. And with all the blue bubble talk lately, they might have had another meeting about it.
Well, that is already possible with tools such as Matrix isn't it?
I heard it has some disadvantages. I don’t use Android, I just want my friends to be able to use iMessage without any hassle.
The biggest disadvantage is you have to be added to chats via your Apple ID instead of your phone number unless you jump through some hoops to get your primary phone number registered with iMessage. I've been using this in some way shape or form for the last several years from Airmessage to Bluebubbles to Beeper with just my Apple ID. I used one of the tricks to register my primary "Android" phone number with iMessage earlier this summer and it's been working great since. Just cost me a few bucks for an old iPhone 8 with a cracked screen and an old SIM. It just sits at my house and thinks it still has my primary number in it.
But no regular person will do all of that if they can just use Whatsapp.
Eh, that would require a propensity of people in my circle of friends/contacts to utilize WhatsApp. (Not going to happen, at least on my neck of the woods) At that point we're going to use Signal which several of my friend and family do already. My wife uses an iPhone so having functional iMessage with her has been absolutely clutch.
Signal is the better choice but unfortunately Whatsapp is the leading chat service here in Germany. By far.
Never.
Lol, after denial of iMessage relevance in EU to be sure do not have to apply to the interoperability law enforced by by EU, I doubt.
I actually think this is the perfect amount of crazy to work.
For a fee!
For a mere $300 a month “iOS on Android” subscription, Android users may have iMessage and message other iOS users as if they were a proper Blue Bubble.