That's basically what I said, but better.
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From what I've read, Google just owns the reference implementation. Apple could implement it themselves, but then lose out on certain non-cross-platform features, like e2e encryption.
SMS is the bare minimum. The only reason iPhone supports it is because it was supported before iMessage was a thing. It was also so it could still communicate with "dumb" phones.
iMessage technically isn't SMS. It just supports it as an additional protocol. On Android, Facebook Messenger ~~and Signal~~ behaves similarly (because android lets apps become the default SMS handler).
But nobody in Europe uses iMessage.
In fact, it recommends installing Linux on top of Windows via WSL or a virtual machine. It explicitly recommends not installing Linux on bare metal because of hardware compatibility.
Forum moderator? Mastodon admin? Same thing really.
If you read the article (or the comments), you'd know the title is misleading. People are uninstalling ad blockers because they're installing better ones.
You could've stopped after the second paragraph.
We know what the problem is, and how to solve it. The people in charge just don't want it solved.