alt Hacker News> Android phones can't support imessage because they are poor low quality phones that cannot handle imessage.
Android phones can't use iMessage because Apple never opened it up, contrary to what Steve Jobs was hinting at back when it was released.
Nowadays I believe you can get a blue bubble when chatting from an Android with an iPhone user by using RCS / JOYN.
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_alternator_ • yesterday at 3:45 PM
Pretty sure that was sarcasm.
You don't get a blue bubble for using RCS. That's still reserved for iMessage exclusively. (At least, on iOS 26 in the US on T-Mobile)