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> lock people into the ecosystem.

Other messaging services are available on iOS. In much if the world, iMessage is barely used. This is not lock-in, at all.

If anything, this is lock-out - it's a service that Apple provides to its customers and they don't want 3rd party clients and/or non-customers using the service.




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