Comment by hmage
2 years ago
End result - Apple is forced to do whatever Google wants.
I find it hard to imagine a company - that cares about its own future - would agree that they are required to implement things that their _competitor_ decides.
That scenario will just hand over the monopoly keys to Google, and we're back to square one.
Square one is Apple preventing users to communicate with android, to leverage phone sales.
Square two would be having an iMessage for Android, or at least not preventing someone else to do it. (Hello, Beeper?)
Square three would be to interact with other chat applications across platforms. iMessage to and from Signal, wechat, telegram, etc.