Was it a mistake on Apple's part not to launch iMessages for Android?

We are hungover from WWDC16, some of us are testing all the caches of iOS 10 yet and we do not stop finding news. However, one of the applications that gained a high profile during WWDC16 was iMessages. Apple's instant messaging service has undergone a major renovation, which allows it to get hold of the new features that we can find in the rest of the leading applications. With this, Apple intends to popularize iMessages, at least within its niche of users, but Was it a mistake on Apple's part not to launch iMessages for Android? We are going to analyze with a critical point of view, through this opinion article, Apple's latest move.

What may or may not happen in the future, we are not going to weigh it, but Tim Cook welcomed a new iMessages, a much more versatile, more open application, with its own accessories store and totally open to third-party developers. However, confusing information had been rumored for many days, in effect, everything indicated that iMessages, like Apple Music, would not be locked up in iOS jail, would become a multi-platform and multi-device application, at the height of Telegram or WhatsApp. However, we were all somewhat stunned when we observed that the presentation of this new iMessages concluded without talking about its expansion to other operating systems.

iMensajes has its own dominant audience, in the USA it is a standard among iOS users. However, it is not difficult to find iOS users in Spain or Italy who not only do not have iMessages activated, but are also unaware that it is an instant messaging service that works through the mobile data network, such as WhatsApp. Perhaps this has been the reason why Apple has wanted to put it at the level of the others. However, it remains limited by the number of iOS users. We are going to go on to expose a series of reasons why, I think it was a mistake not to launch iMessages for Android.

It will never be great if it does not reach Android

• A highly limited user niche: Whether or not the iPhone is the best-selling mobile device on the market makes no sense in this equation. We find that in countries like Spain the iOS market share is limited to just 5% of the population, and in others like Italy three quarters of the same. We are in a world of global applications, anyone, regardless of their device, has WhatsApp or Telegram, as well as other types of applications, which is, in short, the true multiplatform. Apple, with iMessages, has a multiplatform, it is true that we can use iMessages on macOS, on iOS, on watchOS and on tvOS, however, the product barrier with the silk-screened apple is still latent, and in a messaging application, it is important to be able to communicate with anyone, wherever they are, and use the device they use.
• He's tremendously late: I do not want to bore you with the classic debate between WhatsApp and Telegram, logic and reason tell us that Telegram is the best application in all areas, however, WhatsApp has a niche of users who are not willing to abandon it, all due to that WhatsApp was the first great instant messaging application, through a mobile data network, that was truly multiplatform, and could communicate with people. In this case, iMessages is not only late, but also has another stone in its path, the stone of being an Apple product, which automatically generates controversies. However, after not offering its platform to the Google Play Store, it is delaying this announced failure even further.
• Competition on Android is tougher (still): Those of us who use iOS and macOS devices know it, both iMessages and iCloud cannot boast of not suffering drops or of being the fastest network services, something that many users are not willing to go through is obviously the fall of the service almost monthly, which precedes Apple's network.

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