Comment by InTheArena

Its awesome to reverse engineer this... but..

At the end of the day, this product is taking money for using Apple Services with no recompense to Apple. It won't last.

Apple should have added an iMessage client to Android (and charged for it) long, long, long ago, but it doesn't change the ethics problem here.

(This is the downside to the "just pay for it with hardware" model people always love rather than paying subscription fees.)