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There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
It's because texting has been very cheap there for a long time. It's now very cheap where I am too, but in high school everyone was using stuff like MSN Messenger where possible. At that time teens in the US were texting. It became cheap where I am by the time WhatsApp came out, so we have a mix of WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and texting