Ah, I guess iMessage sends it directly right? I’m still confused as to why people wouldn’t switch to whatsapp instead. For example, if your connection sucks iMessage will fallback to text and if you’re abroad or talking to a foreign number then you’ll get charged, that sounds like a massive issue to me.

> I’m still confused as to why people wouldn’t switch to whatsapp instead.

Because all their friends use iMessage too. Switching isn't trivial when you have to convince your whole network tos witch with you.

I guess we live in different bubbles, I can count on one hand the number of people I know that don't use whatsapp. Even my 87 yo grand mother uses whatsapp