When iMessage was created SMS wasn&#x27;t free on almost every data plan. That&#x27;s a huge part of why it exists. I say it sucks because they charge for it at all when it doesn&#x27;t actually cost them anything to provide and they aren&#x27;t doing a heckuva lot of R&amp;D work on SMS. It&#x27;s also slower than iMessage and doesn&#x27;t support delivery confirmations or read receipts.<p>Signal is great. It would be awesome if more people used Signal. But iMessage is the next best thing IMO and it has what really matters: users.