I don&#x27;t see Apple ever opening up iMessage for any device other than their own. iMessage has some neat features but nothing that is totally unique from things like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, PushBullet, etc. Apple isn&#x27;t making any money directly off of iMessage, its a feature of <i>their</i> platform. Opening it up would just increase Apple&#x27;s cost for running it and remove one of the last things that makes an iPhone unique over the other major flagship phones. It&#x27;s their killer app in a world where all phones look alike and all run near identical hardware specs.