that’s a good point maybe there would be a large market for it. Even just the ability to use iMessage from android would be huge. There is definitely some in group/out group dynamics going on, some iphone users call android people “Green bubbles”
Android has similar social features when you're interacting with other Android users (e.g. RCS and Nearby Share). RCS in particular is an open source iMessage competitor and Apple seems to be stubbornly refusing to support it, leading to this "green bubble" phenomenon.
They can, and do. I do lots of messaging in WhatsApp on iOS.
There does seem to be an in group / our group thing for teenagers and people in their 20s though.
The biggest feature benefit of group imessaging is sharing images/video at original quality. But I feel like that is also a benefit for WhatsApp, in that its compression results in quick messages.
