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[owaislone]

I did not know that. I thought it was a locked down messaging network on Apple devices could get on (plus some SMS). Does that mean another service speaking XMPP can exchange messages with an iMessage user?

Edit: According to Wikipedia, it's based on APNs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMessage