sure, but this was the same argument about keeping ipods mac only, itunes, safari, etc. there&#x27;s some truth in it, but overlooks the much larger advantages of having more people use your stuff, and, most importantly, of owning a dominant platform.<p>owning the de-facto messaging platform would be a <i>hugely</i> great position to be in. right now messaging is mostly just that, messages, but there&#x27;s a ton of stuff that would be quite natural to integrate into and on top of it (look to china as an example).<p>also, like you say, messaging apps themselves aren&#x27;t super-rare; it&#x27;s not like oh-my-god secret sauce selling 1000x iphones.<p>but it does happen to be, arguably, the nicest messenger that&#x27;s currently out there. if they opened it up to android, they could become <i>the</i> dominant messaging platform (maybe).<p>huge wasted opportunity.