Android users have always wanted an iMessage app to use the popular messaging service on non-Apple devices. Epic's lawsuit against Apple has now revealed and confirmed that the lock is the reason iMessage for Android doesn't exist. Earlier today, Epic and Apple submitted documents ahead of their next test. As our colleagues at Daily Tech News noted this morning, Epic attorneys asked Apple executives about iMessage for Android during remarks. Apple announced iMessage in June 2011 and released it in October with iOS 5, while it arrived on Mac OS X less than a year later. According to a statement with senior vice president of Internet software and services Eddy Cue, Apple decided not to develop a version of iMessage for Android that would have allowed cross-compatibility with iOS "as early as 2013". Several executives, including chief software officer Craig Federighi and chief marketing officer Phil Schiller, have spoken out against such an existing Android app. "IMessage on Android would simply be used to remove [a] barrier for iPhone families giving their children Android phones." Craig federighi In 2016, when a former Apple employee said that “iMessage is the most difficult [reason] to leave the app out of the Apple universe. . . iMessage amounts to a serious lockdown "of the Apple ecosystem, Mr. Schiller said" the move from iMessage to Android will do us more harm than help us, this email illustrates why " There have been several third-party attempts over the years to bring iMessage to Android, but not all of them have been reliable and required many workarounds. Meanwhile, Google's answer to iMessage is rich communication services. RCS offers typing indicators, read receipts, high-resolution photos and videos, larger group conversations, and interactive experiences with businesses, while end-to-end encryption is being tested. It's available in the Google Messages app with growing adoption from OEMs and Android carriers. As RCS is intended to replace SMS / MMS, it is not known if Apple will ever support this standard on the iPhone. Epic's full dossier is available here, while Apple in its discovery detailed the motives behind the game's creator.
Developer Fortnite has also filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google.
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