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I think that telecom operators are free to offer phones that don’t send SMS, and see how many customers that gets them.

What i meant to say in my original comment - it’s not Apple’s fault SMS sucks and people don’t want to use it.

But it is apples fault that they let the alternatives stagnate and refuse (until recently) things like RCS that would make SMS suck less.

It is clear that Apple considers iMessage a significant network effect and is not interested in having feature parity between iOS and non-iOS

This is exactly my thinking. I can fully understand why green bubbles are annoying, why not being able to send multimedia is annoying, why it all being unencrypted is incredibly unsafe... but why is this Apple's fault? Why is the complaint that Apple is stifling innovation and not that phone carriers are refusing to innovate and or provide these services at a reasonable cost? Why is Apple effectively being required to act as a phone carrier?

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