Is an iMessage clone really that big of an ask for Samsung?

In case you missed this month's news, the ongoing legal drama between Apple and Epic gave recently gave us the final confirmation of what we already knew for a long while now: An Android port of iMessage won't happen for as long as Apple is making smartphones. But what Epic's attorneys failed to uncover in their comical attempt to sue capitalism out of Apple is why Samsung hasn't simply cloned iMessage long ago and been done with it.