Google says iMessage is too powerful
With all the lock-in and connectedness of Google owned systems, they cannot complain.  And it's not Apple's fault that Google can't build long term successes in most products it creates.  That's a management/strategy problem.<p>How many messaging systems has Google had over the years?<p>Their shotgun approach works financially, but it means that only a few of their projects really stick (win).  The rest just trundle along until they get discontinued.<p>The hypocricy is tiresome.  When there's a regulation that threatens them, they make a lot of noise about "free market", and "let the market decide".  But when the market decides against them, they want some government intervention.