iMessage Never Comes to Android? Here are 2 reasons

Hi Vicigers, this time maybe we'll discuss a few questions that some of you often ask, namely why iMessage isn't on Android? Maybe it will be released later? Or not at all?

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iMessage is exclusive to iDevice users

Documents reveal that Eddie Cue (Apple's senior vice president of software and internet services) wanted iMessage to return to Android in 2013, but has been turned down by other executives, who argue that iMessage's exclusivity is the most difficult reason for someone to leave an Apple product.

Several sources also informed that it was Google's efforts to buy WhatsApp that made Cue really push to make iMessage multiplatform.

Cue's concern is well-founded, who wouldn't be jealous of seeing the WhatsApp application with its number of cross-platform users, which to date has reached billions of users?

But it is undeniable that what has become the hallmark of an iDevice until now is the iMessage application which can only be used by Apple users, and that may be something that Apple doesn't want to change.

As one way to fight Google

The Verge (an American technology news media network operated by Vox Media with offices in Manhattan, New York) had informed that Apple did not want to lose one of its most important applications and enter Google's environment.

iMessage is believed to be the best messaging app and Apple believes it should make it the industry standard.

Quoted from The Verge, Federighi (Apple's senior vice president of software engineering) concluded by saying that

“In the absence of a strategy to become the primary messaging service for the majority of mobile users, he fears that iMessage on Android will only serve to remove barriers for 'iPhone Families' providing their children with Android smartphones.”

It makes sense, with a family that used to use iDevice devices, then they found out that Apple's messaging application was multiplatform, it's not impossible that they (parents) will give their children a more affordable android smartphone, instead of a ' introduction of children to smartphones.

So, do you Vicigers agree that later iMessage can be used multiplatform? Try to share your opinion in the comments column, OK?

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