@pcora @Munish The other thing is Beeper is trying to force the issue for Apple to do exactly that; Every other messaging platform does have some form of cross platform messaging (even Apple does web-based Facetime for non-iDevices now!) and there's no reason for the insecure SMS fallback. If this winds up in court, I'm sure that will be part of the debate.

At the VERY minimum, Apple could provide a PWA for iMessage just as they do with Facetime, but they're stalling.