Comment by vel0city

> just at the quality your hardware and software can support.

I assure you, Android phones have been able to render video of far higher quality than what Apple devices would send to them through MMS.

iMessage is a cloud ecosystem. I cannot install iMessage on my Android device.

> Rather than work with Apple on bringing an iMessage app to Android

Apple has been free to release this app at any time. There is nothing Google is doing that prevents it from being made. The only people preventing this app from existing are the people at Apple.