I'm not convinced. iMessage offers a fundamentally better experience over SMS with reactions, read receipts, stickers, higher quality images, etc. Contact Posters just provide a nicer UI for accepting/denying a call, but the experience of the call itself is unchanged. If anything, FaceTime is the iMessage equivalent to phone calls.
As someone who was an android user for year before jumping to iOS I never understood this supposed division over messaging and now that I’m on the iOS side I still don’t. Also I don’t know if I’m in the minority here but I get more messages than phone calls so I don’t see this causing major waves with already upset android users.
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