You undoubtedly would not pay for iMessage on Android

Apple lately introduced that RCS was coming to iMessage in 2024, opening the door to much-improved texting between Android telephones and iPhones.

Would you pay for full-fledged iMessage on Android, although? We posed this query to you in a ballot just a few days in the past, and right here’s what you instructed us.

Would you pay for iMessage on Android?

Outcomes

This was a very talked-about ballot, with nearly 4,000 votes tallied as of writing. The winner? Effectively, an enormous ~77% of respondents stated they wouldn’t pay for iMessage on Android. By comparability, simply ~23% of polled readers stated they’d pay for the service on Google-powered gadgets.

Drilling down even additional, ~72% of North American respondents stated they wouldn’t pay for iMessage on Android telephones in comparison with ~28% of North People who stated they might.

In the meantime, an enormous ~93% of surveyed readers outdoors North America stated they wouldn’t pay for Apple’s messaging service on Android. Yep, simply ~7% of polled readers in the remainder of the world stated they’d pay for Apple’s IM app. It’s no shock to see respondents outdoors North America being against this proposition given the recognition of Android and different messaging apps in the remainder of the world.

Nonetheless, we hope  Apple’s embrace of RCS makes for a extra trendy texting expertise between Android and iOS and leads to a drop in inexperienced bubble bullying.

Feedback

• Patrick Berg: If I needed iMessage I’d get an iPhone. I exploit Android and need neither of the aforementioned.
• realhonesty: Being categorised as a “Inexperienced bubble” solely satisfied me to stay with Samsung. I’m not going to alter what I like simply to slot in. In the event you don’t like me how I’m, then do us each a favor and depart me on learn.
• bridgeotto: Ew. Why would I need to pay for a messaging service?
• cbn4forums: Why would I pay for this? I reside in North America and use WhatsApp as my fundamental messaging App and if I have to message individuals who don’t use it it’s high quality with me, I’ll use SMS and gained’t care concerning the coloration of the bubbles.
• jonzey231: A pair years in the past, sure. All my family and friends have since switched to Sign although. Too little too late for RCS, Tim Apple.
• eszklar: I’ve used BlueBubbles, Sunbird and Beeper for iMessges on Android. Haven’t paid a factor as far as Sunbird/Beeper are nonetheless testing. It actually would rely upon the pricing mannequin, say $3.99 USD/month or so.