Almost ten years ago, Apple unveiled the new iMessage app at WWDC 2011; the app would replace SMS texting on iPhone with something much better. iMessage works over cellular and Wi-Fi, adding a richer instant messaging experience over an internet connection. The app also provided end-to-end encryption, the kind of strong privacy protection other chat apps lacked. Apple brought the app to iPhone, iPad, and Watch in the following years, but it never developed iMessage versions for competing platforms.
There never was an iMessage for Android or Windows, and nobody came close to replicating that success. A decade later, iMessage is still unrivaled, although Google is finally close to operating a decent competitor on Android — RCS doesn’t have end-to-end encryption, however. A recent discovery finally tells us exactly why there’s no iMessage for Android, suggesting there likely won’t be one.
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We know exactly why there’s no iMessage app for Android originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 9 Apr 2021 at 07:31:34 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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