We'll never get to live in this world while people are still obsessed with walled gardens. Apple actively intervenes to keep itself at the center of our lives. Everybody else just lives with it. And this will continue as long as the US grants privileges to the tech sector by refusing to apply standard anti-trust enforcement that it applies routinely to every other economic sector.
Nothing would make me happier than a world without Apple. I'd settle for a world without iMessage.
I mean, there are many proprietary “additions” to SMS. They often don’t work well with each other and telcos often have really odd controls that they place on that line of communication. iMessage still lets you send/receive via SMS if you want all of those caveats.
Nothing would make me happier than a world without Apple. I'd settle for a world without iMessage.