So what you’re saying is that if you’re communicating with someone over txt because you have an iPhone and they have an android and you want to send them a link then you’d rather ask them whether or not they have the same OTT messenger as you, then tell them you will send a link to them using that, then send the link, rather than simply sending the link to them in the existing thread?

No what I’m saying has nothing to do with Android vs iPhone vs blackberry or any other phone. I can get a link on Skype or signal or anything. I don’t need clickable links in my SMS messages on any phone. Thanks

Isn't iMessage just another OTT? (So I'm not sure what significance Apple vs non-Apple has here?)

Honestly, SMS today just exists as a legacy, because of status quo. Just like 'normal' phone calls.

Of course, both are still quite important in the real world.

SMS is the only inter operable messaging standard. If you send a message from iMessage to someone with Android it goes via SMS.

Well, it's inter-operable between mobile phones. But not between arbitrary devices in general. E-Mail is probably the closest to that ideal?

> If you send a message from iMessage to someone with Android it goes via SMS.

Interesting. I think there are some Android messaging apps that also fall back to SMS, but it's not a behaviour I would find particularly useful.

Well, emails are ubiquitous, send me your email via SMS, click, paste, send.

Oh yeah that’s heaps easier than sending a link in a txt!