Apple s Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android as early as 2013 appleinsider.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from appleinsider.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
iMessage for Android killed due to lock-in, legal documents reveal
JC Torres - Apr 9, 2021, 12:52am CDT
There are two primary iOS apps that Android users want on Google’s platform. iTunes, which eventually became Apple Music, did eventually land on Android but iMessage and its convenient messaging systems remain a distant dream. There may have been a time when bringing iMessage to Android was a possibility but, as revealed in a document used by Epic Games in its Fortnite-related lawsuit against Apple, the iPhone maker’s execs shot that idea done in fear of losing people to Android.
Epic Games and Apple are gearing up to meet in court next month over the former’s addition of a feature in Fortnite that bypassed iOS’s payment system. The game developer has raised the stakes by painting Apple as a company that uses its dominant position to create a monopoly of its own platform and it is using depositions of Apple’s own executives to prove its point
Apple considered bringing iMessage to Android, then decided iOS-only method was more useful
In the ongoing legal dispute between Apple and Epic Games, the former has been called out for its practice of keeping its apps and services exclusive to its devices. A working example provided for this was Apple s popular app iMessage.
Sarthak Dogra | April 9, 2021 | Updated 13:44 IST
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Highlights
In a line of questioning, Apple executives agreed that its popular app iMessage could have been made available for Android.
The app would have worked with cross-compatibility between Android and iOS.
However, it was kept exclusive to keep buyers locked in within the Apple ecosystem.
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