What is the point of iMessage on the iPhone?

I do not get it. It's "faster"? That's all I've heard. But ever since that feature was added my texts started randomly not going thru or not sending for a few minutes. A little at first but worse and worse and now probably every day. Why not just send it as a regular text anyway? So my messages can be in a pretty blue bubble?

Imagine you forgot to pay your phone account, and need to send a message, just get on a place that there's Wi-Fi and the message will be sent by iMessage. Useful when that happens

Its for texting. Thats what its used for. And if its in blue it means they have an iphone also. If its in green it means they don't have one.

IMessages are only sent to other users who have an iPhone. To everyone else, it'll send as a regular text message.

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