This is really dumb lol. Apple adding a nicer call screen to their OS is not anti competitive lol. Yes, they can sync to the people you’re calling but c’mon! I certainly don’t feel like it would be anticompetitive for Google to add a nice call screen to android. Different operating systems have different features. And what? Apple’s adding custom stickers? No, Apple adding custom stickers to iOS is not anticompetitive lol. In fact you can send your custom stickers (admittedly without their effects) to android users through SMS/MMS as you would expect
I’m not convinced. iMessage offers a fundamentally better experience over SMS with reactions, read receipts, stickers, higher quality images, etc. Contact Posters just provide a nicer UI for accepting/denying a call, but the experience of the call itself is unchanged. If anything, FaceTime is the iMessage equivalent to phone calls.
Not even mentioning the green bubble problem is a US thing (maybe Canada and Japan too?). Most places around the world don’t have a overwhelming majority of iPhone users creating this network effect.
The biggest reason I see people moving to iPhones recently in my country is Android flagship phones getting more expensive but still offering a bad experience overall for “non geeks”. Most people have trouble even picking a model, and the chance of picking a wrong one is high.
As someone who was an android user for year before jumping to iOS I never understood this supposed division over messaging and now that I’m on the iOS side I still don’t. Also I don’t know if I’m in the minority here but I get more messages than phone calls so I don’t see this causing major waves with already upset android users.
