Apple won’t put iMessage on Android in order to keep users locked-in, court documents reveal

Apple could have made a version of iMessage that works on Android devices but chose not to in order to keep people buying iPhones.Revealed through court documents submitted as part of the legal battle between Fortnite publisher Epic Games and Apple, the Cupertino smartphone giant had made a decision as early as 2013 to not develop its messaging platform for competing phones.There would “have been cross-compatibility with the iOS platform so that users of both platforms would have been able to exchange messages with one another seamlessly”, said Eddy Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software and Services.However, this idea...